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T | HE Muck Rake 



By <$dn>ard Clay son, Sr. 



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oosevemanism 



"We will speak out; we will be heard, 
Though all earth's systems crack; 

We will not bate a single word 
Nor take a letter back. 



"We speak the truth, and what care we 

For hissing and for scorn, 
While some faint gleamings we can see 

Of freedom's coming morn? 

"Let liars fear, let cowards shrink, 

Let traitors turn away; 
Whatever we have dared to think 

That dare we also say." 



Cumtux? 



The Muck Rake 



BY 

EDWARD CLAYSON, SR. 



CUMTUX ? 



1908 

White & Davis Printing Co 

Seattle 



PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGES. 

Why? 

Neither President Roosevelt nor Candidate William 
Howard Taft can satisfactorily explain why the Re- 
publican party has not done during the past four 
years what it is promising to do during the next four. 
The "evils that have crept in" are due to the Repub- 
lican management and to punish the Republican evil- 
doers would be against Republican principles. 

Lies are good for a short race only. Skilful 
lies, no matter how skilfully they are clothed 
by cunning experts with truthful appearances, 
they cannot stand the light of exposure. Thou- 
sands of people will read the above clipping as 
it appeared in the Sunday Times of the 27th 
of September, 1908, and thoughtless people will 
accept its lying insinuations as "confirmation 
strong as holy writ" until the "studious lies" 
are pointed out to them. It is a very signifi- 
cant fact that all the traducers of President 
Roosevelt carefully avoid any reference to his 
"Famous Message to Congress." Please ob- 
serve the language above. It says: "Neither 
President Roosevelt nor Candidate William 
Howard Taft can satisfactorily explain why 
the Republican party has not done during the 
past four years what it is promising to do dur- 
ing the next four." This has a very virtuous 
sound, has it not ? Yet it is mere noise ; not a 
particle of music in it. The "reason why" 

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more good work was not done than there was, 
is because the Congress (Democrats and Re- 
publicans alike) gave no heed to those urgent, 
patriotic, statesmanlike messages of President 
Roosevelt. The corrupt influences of the trusts 
and the corporations had more influence with 
that Congress (regardless of what party they 
were members of) than did the urgent appeals 
of that valorous man, President Roosevelt, in 
his messages. That is why ! And every intelli- 
gent man who will stop and think for a moment 
knows the why as here presented. The trusts 
and the corporations have felt the vigorous, vir- 
tuous, valorous hand of President Roosevelt and 
they fear him, and they view with mistrust the 
man that he supports for President of the 
United States, as they know from experience 
that he, Taft, means what he says when he de- 
clares that the "Rooseveltian principles' ' will 
be maintained if he is elected. The trusts and 
the corporations also know the "peerless one 
from Nebraska.' ' They do not fear him, for he 
is as fluctuating and as unreliable as his peers, 
the rostrum-hunting political Amazons, who 
have also discovered him. Time and again have 
we declared that "character is worth more to a 
nation that education." W. J. Bryan is char- 
acterless. 



SHAMEFUL. 

The whole moral world today is put to shame 
when it witnesses the heinousness and the stren- 
uous efforts of national blackguards and hire- 
ling demagogues to besmirch the personal and 

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unimpeachable character of President Roose- 
velt. This is not political partisanship (it is in- 
flamed by political partisanship, of course) ; it 
is moral partisanship. There are as many de- 
generate Republicans as there are Democrats 
who would like to see the moral prestige of this 
virtuous man Eoosevelt destroyed, in order that 
audacious infamy may become pre-eminent and 
permanent. This intense spirit of wickedness 
against virtue is the same that assassinated Cae- 
sar; it crucified Christ, it sent Danton to the 
guillotine and it assassinated President Lincoln. 
Hypocrisy is the father of it, Cant is the mother 
of it. "Until Cant ceases nothing else can be- 
gin.' ' America today needs a powerful peace- 
maker. It is not peace and humiliation which 
should be tolerated, but peace associated with 
dignity and truthfulness which we must have. 
It were better far that we have war to the knife, 
and the knife to the hilt, than to submit to a 
shameful, humiliating, degenerating peace with 
demagogues in politics and hypocrites in church 
in the ascendancy, and national blackguards 
with ill-gotten pelf dominating the whole peo- 
ple. The American Pharoah has evidently 
"hardened his heart," and has determined to 
frustrate the holy efforts of the American Mo- 
ses, whose name is not W. J. Bryan. 

Be sure you're right, then go ahead is the 
motto of old David Crockett, and this motto 
shows itself in President Roosevelt. The mouth- 
ings of the designing tools of the trusts and 
corporations notwithstanding. President Roose- 
velt is charged by the degenerate rabble with 

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being impulsive and thoughtless, of " rushing 
in" without being considerate. This infamous 
lie is started in Wall Street, New York, and is 
echoed and re-echoed all along the line by fools, 
knaves and degenerates generally. The fact 
of the matter is that President Roosevelt was 
both thoughtful ond deliberate, for he called 
together the wisest and most impartial men in 
the nation and discussed the matter of Foraker 
and Haskell thoroughly before taking the im- 
portant step which he did. Then, like old David 
Crockett, he was sure he was right and went 
ahead. More power to him! Everyone in Se- 
attle knows that the writer of this, the editor 
of this paper, is not a Republican, but by the 
living God he is a "Rooseveltian," which is a 
superior standard to that of being a Republi- 
can, for all Republicans are not Rooseveltians 
(Foraker, for instance). They are loyal to 
their party, but they have not all of them a full 
comprehension of the grandeur of the man who 
has carried their banner for the past seven 
years, and has added more strength to their 
party and dignity to the American people than 
any other man who has occupied the office of 
Chief Magistrate of the United States for the 
past forty years. To be able to add my best 
efforts toward the support of such a great man 
as President Roosevelt is the greatest pleasure 
of my public life. The slogan of ward politi- 
cian has been put into the mouths of the 
thoughtless rabble. This is supposed to be- 
little the man who has fought so strenuously 
for uprighteousness. Yes, he has gone into the 

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wards, if you will, with the muck-rake, and has 
exposed the mucksters to the noonday sun, and 
they are all squirming, for they are now ad- 
mitted to full membership in "The Found Out 
Club/' Every hypocrite in church or dema- 
gogue in politics or quack doctor or " cuckold- 
maker' ' in court (whether in breeches or petti- 
coats), race suiciders, criminal limit hens, dope- 
sters, prohibitionists, woman suffragists — being 
as they are the offal of the domestic hearth and 
the refuse of the political dunghill — are all (in 
their mutual degeneracy) gnashing their heath- 
enish teeth and are wagging their lying tongues 
in a general chorus at the man who is deter- 
mined to take them out of the bondage which 
they seem to enjoy. Here is a picture presented 
by the poet of "Roosevelt the Deliverer" and 
the degenerate rabble who strive to oppose him : 
"But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, 
And by their vices brought to servitude, 
Than to love bondage more than liberty, 
Bondage with ease, than strenuous liberty; 
And to despise, or envy, or suspect 
Whom God hath of His special favor raised 
As their deliverer ; if he aught begin, 
How frequently to desert him, and at last, 
To heap ingratitude on worthiest deeds V 9 
EDWARD CLAYSON, SB. 
With no apologies to make. 



TOM WATSON'S CLOTHES. 

Demagogue Bryan charges President Roose- 
velt with having "stolen his clothes." In the 
meantime the rightful owner, Tom Watson, 

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says, ' ' They are my clothes, which you two mer- 
cenaries are contending for," and Tom Watson 
is right as usual. This contention for Tom 
Watson's clothes amongst four aspirants- 
Roosevelt, Bryan, Hisgen, Debs — reminds me 
of the story of the four Roman soldiers who 
crucified Christ. The story reads: 

"Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, 
took His garments, and made four parts, to every 
soldier a part; and also His coat: now the coat was 
without seam, woven from the top throughout. They 
said, therelore, among themselves: Let us not rend 
it, but cast lots tor it, whose it shall be." — St. John 
xix. 23-24. 

These four political soldiers — Roosevelt, Bry- 
an, Hisgen, Debs— have "cast lots" lor Tom 
Watson's coat and Koosevelt has won it, whilst 
the other three have divided Tom Watson's gar- 
ments between them. Now Roosevelt likes Tom 
Watson's coat, and wears it with considerable 
pride, but it does not fit him very well. The 
political tailor has trimmed off some of the 
essential parts of Our Tom's coat, but they left 
the ornaments complete, so that the "Populist 
uniform" is not disguised at all, and Roosevelt 
will not disgrace this uniform, nor disguise it. 
The other three — Bryan, Hisgen and Debs — are 
wearing Tom Watson's under garments, which 
are never exposed to view. "Tom Watson's 
clothes" are very simply made, but they are 
of the most stable material, hence their great 
attractiveness to the Democratic multitude. 
Cumtux ? 



DEBS & CO., MORALISTS? 

The "slave-makers," who are ever watchful, 

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observing that the "socialist party" was lag- 
ging, and that the "deluded" were in danger 
of returning to common sense, they are again 
"booming Debs"; they boom him by telegraph, 
they boom him with their hireling press (cau- 
tiously), they boom him with "special cars" 
fitted up in the most luxurious style. He is an 
American nabob, serving the nabobs, as they 
made him a nabob, as a reward for his labors 
in their behalf. As a populist they made him 
a martyr; as a socialist they made him a hero. 
The " undiscerning workingman" is carried 
away with the "oratorical gab" of Debs, in- 
stead of observing his actions. "Actions speak 
louder than words." Te fools, don't you know 
that? Show me the kind of company you 
keep, and I will tell you the kind of a man you 
are. But then, what is the secret motive of 
Debs ? It is one of those things that are known 
but cannot be proven. This great national 
demagogue is a very able man. He is much 
abler than Demagogue Bryan, for Debs can 
preach "eternal truth" to fools, and the great- 
er the truth the greater the deception, for he 
preaches "true ideals," which he and the 
"slave-makers" whom he serves know quite 
well can never be put into actual practice. ' ' So- 
cialism in politics is a parallel of Christianity 
in religion, being a beautiful ideal to teach but 
impossible to practice. I doubt if there is a 
true Christian on the face of the whole earth. 
The Socialist party affords a place for the 
"imaginative and impractical"; it also affords 

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a field for unscrupulous agitators to make an 
easy living by "working the workingman." 
These agitators occupy about the same mendi- 
cant position in politics as the Salvation Army 
captains do in religion. They are both endowed 
with more insolence than moral principles, and 
they would both sooner "gab than work." By 
keeping these gabsters employed at " gabbing' f 
and keeping a "party" for them to center in, 
where they can air their stupid ambitions and 
work off their steam for the edification of gap- 
ing fools of both sexes, they are kept out of 
danger, for should their minds be turned into 
"sensible channels" and their ambitions cen- 
tered upon honest practical work in public in- 
terests they might become dangerous to the 
"special privileged" aristocratic usurpers, so 
graphically denounced by Tom Watson, who 
are now using them for their own ends. Here 
is what a celebrated reformer says about the 

Socialists : 

Has an Economic Plumb Line. 
To the Editor of the North American: Every 
American citizen should be opposed to abolishing the 
constitutional right "of the people peaceably to as- 
semble, and to petition the government for a redress 
of grievances." Every true American should stand 
for honest discussion, verbal and printed, on govern- 
mental problems. Our motto should be fair field and 
no favor; let us aid every true development judi- 
ciously, heartily. Socialists vociferously demand the 
right of free assemblage, but they craftily conceal 
the fact that they most vitally abuse this glorious 
American privilege; and subtly lead many of our 
citizens astray by their propaganda of untruth, half 
truth and of devious conception. Socialists will not 

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permit, in their meetings, and in their publications, 
the fair play which they pretend to stand for. I chal- 
lenge them to be accurate. Unless they are accurate 
they are neither scientific nor honest. What is the 
exact economic end which they wish to attain? By 
what plan or plans do they expect to attain and main- 
tain this specific end? If socialistic leaders are hon- 
est, they will furnish the foregoing essential infor- 
mation, or desist from their deceptiv3 propaganda. 
Our people are suffering frightful economic distress. 
Able socialistic leaders, who prostitute their abiUties, 
can naturally sway and lead many of our citizens 
astray. These socialistic leaders should stand forth 
and demonstrate their ability to truly elucidate our 
economic perversion. If they decline to be specific, 
then American citizens should resolutely turn away 
from "blind leaders of the blind." Unless we turn 
away from deceptive guile and seek after eternal 
truth in practical form, I fear that our nation is lost. 
Standard Oil Chancellor Day, of the Syracuse Uni- 
versity, told the Methodist ministers of Philadelphia 
to avoid social ethics in their sermons. Mr. Day 
warned them against the newspapers of our land. 
If our ministers are so ungodly that they will not 
earnestly discuss righteous political, economic and 
judicial systems, I hope that The North American 
will accept Chancellor Day's plutocratic challenge 
and ever keep its columns open for the impartial, 
logical, common-sense discussion of the foregoing 
most vital themes. One more elemental economic 
question to the blatant socialistic revolutionists: Has 
God (nature) failed to provide specific and relevant 
test of the uprightness of human economic govern- 
ment? Not any of us desire to live in a house which 
is, physically, out of plumb. We all know that our 
governments, national, state and local, are sadly out 
of plumb; otherwise our people would not suffer so 
frightfully while we are in the midst of plenty, for 
nature (God) has been bountiful. Where is the im- 
mediate, practical and effective remedy? Humanity 
suffers, and if our profoundly learned socialists evade 

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direct and most relevant questions, they are factors 
in producing and maintaining the frightful specters 
of idleness, suffering and debasement which stalk 
through our beloved land. EDWARD STERN. 

Philadelphia, March 8, 1908. 



The great lesson for America to learn is 
"temperance," not prohibition. The man who 
drinks moderately, whether in a saloon or in 
his own house, is the true " temperance ' ' man. 
The public have been so continually stuffed 
with this wretched philosophy that they con- 
sider "temperance and prohibition" as being 
one and the same thing. They are as far apart 
as frugality and gluttony. The drunkard dies 
a premature death with "delerium tremens," 
and the glutton dies before his time with the 
"gout," whilst "temperance" in drinking and 
frugality in eating lives long and enjoyable 
lives. "Be ye temperate in all things," says 
St. Paul. 



SALOONKEEPER TURNS TABLES ON 
CRUSADERS. 

JACKSON, Mich.— The crusaders today vis- 
ited the saloon of Ed Shafer, formerly a Luth- 
eran preacher, and prayed fervently for the 
Lord to convince him of his great sin and lead 
him to abandon his nefarious business. When 
they had finished he arose, closed his eyes heav- 
enward and offered up the following prayer : 

"0 God, thou who madest the heavens and 
the earth and created man in thine own image; 
thou who didst teach thy servant Noah to make 

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and use wine; thou who doth command in thy 
holy word — 'Drink, yea, drink abundantly/ 
'Drink thy wine with a merry heart,' 'Let him 
drink and forget his poverty/ 'Give wine unto 
those that be of heavy hearts/ and 'Drink no 
longer water, but use a little wine for thy stom- 
ach 's sake and thine often infirmities.' We also 
read in thy word how Jesus did convert water 
into wine, showing plainly that he considered 
wine better than water for man to drink, and 
how he chose wine instead of water as the em- 
blem of his blood, and commanded his follow- 
ers to forever drink it in commemoration of 
him. We also find that thy servant, Martin 
Luther, the great reformer, did say: 'He who 
loves not women, wine and song, remains a fool 
his whole life long.' 

"0 Lord, we pray thee to have pity upon 
these women who rebel against thy word, and 
who are not grateful to thee for thy precious 
gifts, and who dress extravagantly, and drive 
their husbands to overwork, to drink, to dis- 
honesty, to bankruptcy, to crime and to suicide. 
They adorn their costly headgear with the bod- 
ies of innocent birds, whose sweet lives were 
wickedly sacrificed to feed their cruel vanity. 
They wear not the complexion thou providest 
them with, but compress their 36-inch waist 
into 16-inch corsets. They wear false hair, store 
teeth, tight shoes and bustles, and pad their 
bosoms with moss, cotton and steel springs. 

"0 God, thou knowest that crusading women 
generally have drunken husbands or sons, 
made so by unhappy homes, or husbands with 

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feeble minds who meekly submit to the author- 
ity of their wives and hide behind their skirts. 
Lord, have mercy upon such women, who 
bring disgrace and humiliation upon their 
families, and do not punish them according 
to their deserts, but constrain them to not be 
gadding brawlers, but, as commanded in thy 
word, 'to be discreet keepers at home, obedient 
to their husbands, that the word of God be not 
blasphemed/ and to pluck the beams out of 
their own eyes before they sally forth with 
hatchets and prayers and with exhortations 
and epithets to remove the motes from the eyes 
of their neighbors. 

"0 God, teach these women to realize that 
they are making fools of themselves. Convince 
them that violence will not promote temper- 
ance, but that it will beget violence and retali- 
ation and leads to evils infinitely greater than 
the evil they seek to remove. Teach them that 
the only temperance acceptable to thee is that 
which proceeds from the heart and is voluntary 
self control. That hatchet temperance, like pad- 
lock virtue, shotgun honor and sheriff honesty, 
is a stench in thy sight. 

"0 God, give us all wisdom to study deeply 
thy moral law and to comprehend thy will, and 
may all the temptations and trials of life prove 
a means of grace to fit us for the life beyond. 
Teach us to realize the great truth where there 
is no cross there is no crown ; that without temp- 
tation there can be no virtue. Fill our hearts 
with love and our heads with wisdom, finally 

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receive us into thy Heavenly kingdom, and 
thine shall be the glory forever. Amen." 

Some of the ladies took offense at the prayer 
before it was half finished and tried vigorously 
to get out of the saloon, but the pack of human- 
ity refused to give way and compelled them to 
remain and hear it out. The crusaders ap- 
peared to feel crestfallen and beaten at their 
own game, and the episode seems to have com- 
pletely turned the tables on them in Jackson. 
Their crusade gun, like the old army musket, 
did more execution at the breech than at the 
muzzle. — Leavenworth Times. 



THE BREWERS' PLATFORM. 

The promotion of temperance in connection with 
the use of fermented beverages — the meaning of tem- 
perance being neither abuse nor disuse, is favored by 
the United States Brewers' Association in a lengthy 
set of principles the association adopted at its closing 
session. These principles pledge the men represent- 
ing $1,000,000,000 of capital, to "clean house," so that 
even a prohibitionist cannot find fault. The declara- 
tion is also a protest by the brewers that they have 
not permitted sordid gains to influence them in sup- 
porting low resorts. They maintain that politics has 
done them more harm than good, and that they will 
prove by future action that they are both law-abiding 
and law-loving. 

The allied trades having to do with work for the 
brewing interests, organized to help the larger body 
fight the prohibition movement. The new organiza- 
tion will be known as the United States Manufactur- 
ers and Merchants' Association. Many millions of 
dollars are invested in these trades, and the "per- 
sonal liberty" demand springs from them. The 
platform adopted is in part: 

"The United States Brewers' Association, in con- 
vention assembled, presents the following declara- 
tions of prinnipl««> and declaro* It* sympathy with. 

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and offers its co-operation with any movement look- 
ing to the promotion of habits of temperance in the 
use of fermented beverages. By temperance is meant 
temperate use — neither abuse or disuse. We believe 
that the temperate use of beer promotes health and 
happiness, which are the underlying conditions of 
morality and social order, and in this belief we are 
supported by the vast preponderance of educated as 
well as popular opinion all over the world. 

"It is a mistake to believe that the commercial in- 
terest of the brewers stands back of the excessive 
multiplication of saloons or of any of the unlawful 
or improper practices resorted to by a small minority 
of saloonkeepers to swell their incomes, such as 
keeping open after hours, selling to minors or drunk- 
ards, encouraging or tolerating gambling and the 
social evil in connection with their places. 

"The existing evils, however, can be eradicated by 
action on the part of individuals in the trade only if 
they are aided and supported by public sentiment 
and suitable laws which will make it possible for a 
small number of people who may not wish to abide 
by the concerted action of the majority of the trade 
to make such action futile. The brewers are ready 
and anxious to do their share, to co-operate to the 
extent of their power in the work of eliminating 
abuses connected with the retail trade. While re- 
pudiating the charge that theirs is the chief respon- 
sibility for the existence of such abuses, they ask the 
co-operation of the public and of the proper authori- 
ties in the work of making the saloon what it ought 
to be — a place for wholesome refreshment and recre- 
ation. 

"The brewer is charged with being in politics and 
using political power for the purpose of influencing 
legislation, paralyzing executive action and protect- 
ing the disorderly saloon. Such statements are gross- 
ly exaggerated and highly colored. Rather is it true 
that the existence of disorderly saloons is in many 
cases the work of a certain class of politicians who 
keep them alive for their own purposes and in opposi- 
tion to the wishes of the brewers. With suitable laws 
properly enforced and backed by healthy public sen- 
timent such disorderly saloons could be exterminated, 
and not only the community purified of objectionable 

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places, but the brewing trade freed of an incubus 
which it is now struggling to shake off without such 
assistance. No one would hail such a consummation 
with greater satisfaction than the brewer. 

"If the brewers have been driven into politics it is 
due to the intemperate attacks upon them along po- 
litical lines, and we ask the public to bear in mind 
that self-preservation is a very elementary instinct. 

"We turn with confidence to the fair-minded Amer- 
ican public and ask it if, in view of many practical 
instances of our sincerity given in the face of great 
difficulties, to consider the statements above made 
and to accept our assurance that the objectionable 
features of the retail liquor traffic do not rest upon 
and are not backed, either by the commercial inter- 
ests or by any supposed political power of the brew- 
ers, but that the elimination of such objectionable 
features is most most earnestly desired by our trade, 
that we will lend our fullest co-operation toward 
their extinction, and invite the assistance of public 
officials and the people in general to that end." — 
Pacific Wine and Spirit Review. 



THE STORY OF BEER. 

The birth of beer occurred before the dawn of his- 
tory. It was brewed by the Iberian aborigines of 
Spain, and it is brewed today by tribes in Darker 
Africa The story of beer is that of the human race. 
Gambrinus was the legendary discoverer of beer in 
its better sense. Who was Gambrinus? Some say 
the name is a corporation of Jan Primus, Duke of 
Brabant, who did not disdain to be portrayed holding 
a tankard. Others believe the name to be that of 
some mythical, beneficnt saint who gave the amber 
nectar to mortals. Beer is more than a beverage — 
it is a civilization, says a writer in Harper's Weekly. 
There are two races, and only two, which rule the 
world today — the wine-oil race and the butter-beer 
race. The line of demarkation is clear and clean; it 
runs along the northern boundary of the wine lands. 
The Russians, Germans, Scandinavians, Belgians, En- 
glish and people of northeast France belong to the 
butter-beer race; the people of the Mediterranean 
littoral to the wine-oil. All drinking terms run 
through all languages with little disguise. Thus 

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"wine" comes to us almost unchanged through Latin, 
Greek and Hebrew. "Mead" has a similar history. 
"Whisky" goes back to the Celtic "usquebaugh," be- 
cause the Celts invented the science of distillation, 
or at least first adopted it from the Arabians. — Pacific 
Wine and Spirit Review. 



KNIGHTS OP THE ROYAL ARCH. 

Seattle Lodge No. 58. 

E. L. James, Recorder, 1265 First Avenue South 

SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 29th, 1908. 
Editor The Patriarch, 
Seattle, Wash. 
Dear Sir : Our local press on several recent 
occasions has printed news items regarding the 
Royal Arch organization, from which the in- 
ference has been drawn that the Royal Arch 
is a secret association of saloon keepers, organ- 
ized for selfish interests, and to propagate un- 
derground work against the forces of law and 
order. Such is far from being the case. The 
Royal Arch is a national organization working 
on the assumption that the sale of wines, spir- 
its and beer is a legitimate business, which if 
properly conducted is not inimical to the living 
of a sober, godly and righteous life, and still 
less a hindrance to local or national progress. 
On the other hand, the Royal Arch concedes 
that the liquor business as it has sometimes 
been conducted in the past, and in some in- 
stances unfortunately in the present, is not a 
respectable business, and is open to very serious 
criticism. It is to remedy these conditions that 
the society is organized. The Royal Arch is 
nothing more nor less than an organization of 
wpti pnffuffpd in the same hmrinflns. mutually 

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anxious to improve the standing of their busi- 
ness in the community, and banded together to 
the end that by their combined power and in- 
fluence they may compel all men engaged in 
that business to obey the law, and so conduct 
their business that it shall neither be a cause 
of stumbling, nor a means of offense to the good 
citizen. 

Unfortunately, it has often happened that 
men of ill-repute have, by misrepresentation, 
obtained saloon licenses, and have conducted 
disreputable resorts in defiance of law and mor- 
als, leaving legitimate saloon keepers to bear 
the brunt of a perfectly justified outraged pub- 
lic opinion. 

The Royal Arch will not admit such men into 
its membership, and will strive, side by side 
with the forces of good government and social 
purity, to drive such men out of business, and 
their houses out of existence. 

The other day one of our daily papers printed 
a story to the effect that the Royal Arch had 
organized a systematic boycott of all business 
men who had signed petitions against the re- 
cent granting of liquor licenses. On behalf of 
the Royal Arch we can, and do officially deny 
the truth of that story. To present the indi- 
vidual saloon keeper from looking askance at 
a brother business man actively engaged in the 
work of ruining the saloon man's business, is 
to ask the impossible. So long as human nature 
is what it is, Smith is not likely to do business 
with Jones, if Jones is trying to hurt Smith's 
business. But that has nothing to do with the 

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Royal Arch. In brief, what other men's secret 
organizations do for the boosting of prices, the 
Royal Arch does for the boosting of morals, and 
the improvement of the liquor business general- 
ly. Surely no fault can be found with the aims 
of such an organization, and unless a man be- 
lieves that the liquor business per se is criminal, 
his best wishes will certainly be for the success 
of our organization. Very respectfully yours, 

J. E. L. JAMES, 
Recorder, Knights of the Royal Arch. 



ROOSEVELT VS. THE SOCIALISTS. 

Judging from the angry replies of prominent 
Socialists, President Roosevelt must have 
struck home in the address in which he recently 
paid his respects to socialism in the following 
words : 

"We have made this country what it is part- 
ly because we have measurably succeeded in se- 
curing in the past equality of opportunity. 
That is very different from equality of reward. 
I believe emphatically in doing everything that 
can be done by law or otherwise to keep the 
avenues of occupation, of employment, of work, 
*of interest so open that there shall be, so far as 
it is humanly possible to achieve it, a measur- 
able equality of opportunity; equality of op- 
portunity for each man to show the stuff that 
is in him. But when it comes to reward, let 
him get for his energy, foresight, intelligence, 
thrift, courage he is able to get if the oppor- 
tunity opens. I don't believe in coddling any- 

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one. I would no more permit the strong to 
oppress the weak than to tell a weak man or a 
vicious man that he ought by rights to have 
the reward due only to the man who actually 
earns it. Very properly we in this country set 
our faces against privilege. There can be no 
grosser example of privilege that that set be- 
fore us as an ideal by certain socialistic writers 
— the ideal that every man shall put into the 
common fund what he can, which would mean 
what he chose, and should take out whatever 
he wanted; in other words, this theory is that 
the man who is vicious, foolish, a drag on the 
whole community, who contributes less than 
his share to the common good, should take out 
what is not his, what he has not earned, that 
he shall rob his neighbor of what that neighbor 
has earned. This particular socialistic ideal 
would be to enthrone privilege in one of its 
grossest, crudest, most dishonest, most harmful 
and most unjust forms. Equality of opportun- 
ity to render a service — yes, I will do every- 
thing I can to bring it about. Equality of re- 
ward — no, unless there is also equality of ser- 
vice. If the service is equal let the reward be 
equal; but let the reward depend on the ser- 
vice; and mankind, being composed as it is, 
there will be inequality of service for a long 
time to come, no matter how great the equality 
of opportunity may be, and just as long as 
there is inequality of service it is eminently de- 
sirable that there should be inequality of re- 
ward/ ' — Tacoma Forum. 

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BEER, COMMERCE AND MORALITY. 

The Seattle Spirit. 

Carrying beer enough to quench the thirst of every 
man, woman and child in a city of about six times 
the size of Greater Seattle, the steamship Watson 
sailed yesterday afternoon for San Francisco. She 
had a full cargo of freight, including the largest sin- 
gle consignment of beer ever shipped from this port. 
She also carried a full passenger list, including a 
number of racing men and track horses. There were 
750 tons of beer in the hold of the Watson when she 
left port about 1 o'clock. It was in the shape of 460 
hogsheads, 1,200 barrels, 700 half barrels, 150 third 
barrels, 900 quarter barrels and 120 casks of bottled 
beer, making in all 29 carloads. The beer was large- 
ly of local manufacture. As there are thirty gallons 
to each barrel and sixty-three gallons to a hogshead, 
it is figured that the Watson carried in round num- 
bers 100,000 gallons or 400,000 quartrs of beer. Con- 
servative judgment places about four drinks to each 
quart, making a total of 1,600,000 glasses of beer. — 
Seattle Times. 

The true Seattle Spirit feels a pride in all 
that is represented in the above commercial tri- 
umph ; but hypocrisy will in its insolence make 
faces at it. The true moralist feels as great a 
gratification at that " large cargo" of "temper- 
ance beverage" going forth from this port as 
the commercial man does. Why should he not ? 
Seattle sends to San Francisco a large cargo 
of excellent beer, and San Francisco responds 
by sending us a large cargo of wine and brandy. 
This mutual exchange represents a commercial 
transaction in keeping with the highest tri- 
umphs in civilized life, and not in conflict with 
the highest standards of morality. Now let 

The Royal Raymond Degenerates' ' of the 

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Anti-Saloon League view this wholesome pro- 
duction of the barley, the hops and the grape, 
and compare it with the "spirits of wine" and 
drugs used to make prohi hypocrites drunk 
with their infamous compound, which is "un- 
lawfully and shamefully" peddled from "blind 
pig sneak holes and drug stores," where the 
product of the breweries and wineries and the 
distilleries are excluded, and maintain their 
villainous position in the presence of honest, 
upright men if they can. The wholesome pro- 
ducts of the barley, the hops, the grape and 
the corn are a blessing to the highest standards 
of cilized life, not a curse. Alcoholic beverages 
are fit for highly civilized people only, not for 
savages. The moment a savage comes in con- 
tact with it it kills him, because he is "intem- 
perate"; he is the peer of the prohibitionist in 
this respect and needs protection against his 
own depraved appetite and his own weak mind, 



COLLIER'S ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR 

PRIZE. 

"The Saloon in Our Town." 

Last March Collier's offered a one hundred 
dollar prize for the best article presented to 
them upon the subject of "The Saloon in Our 
Towns." The article to be confined to one 
thousand words or less. The editor of this 
paper competed for this prize. Here is my 
matter upon the subject: 

Seattle, Wash., March 6, 1908. 
To the Editor of Collier's, New York. 

fkmtlpmpn : "The Saloon in Our Town" is 

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an interesting subject just now; in discussing 
this subject I wish to make a few comparisons. 
"Comparisons are odious," but truthful com- 
parisons are never odious to virtuous men. 

To begin with, I wish to say that ' ' American 
liberty" was born in a saloon, the "Raleigh 
Tavern," a place where they "sold rum," was 
the place of all others where the voice of Pat- 
rick Henry was heard denouncing the oppres- 
sor, and the churches of Virginia were against 
the liberty-loving Americans and with their 
oppressor, King George the Third; and we 
must not forget in discussing this matter that 
in the matter of drinking it was "rum" whis- 
key or nothing with the American forefathers. 
Their drinking place did not furnish them 
with light wines and beers, lemonade, etc., etc., 
with which the "modern saloon" is equipped. 

When the Prohibitionists first began their 
crusade, some sixty-odd years ago, in America 
the whiskey bottle was found in nearly every 
household, and the "modern saloon" was al- 
most unknown except in the very largest cities. 
The Prohibitionists drove the liquor out of the 
household, and up sprang the "modern saloon" 
and the "patent medicine" knave, both being 
a product of Prohibition philosophy. In re- 
gard to "patent medicines," I wish to say that 
it has been proven by the most reliable author- 
ity that the most popular "patent medicine" is 
that which contains the most alcohol. 

I came to Puget Sound forty-three years ago, 
and for many years we had no steamer what- 
ever touching Puget Sound from the outside 

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world. The "rude saloon' ' was our central 
place of resort admidst rude but honest com- 
panionship; our only alcoholic drink was Hud- 
son Bay rum, a contraband article from Vic- 
toria, B. C, and some cheap bitters and still 
cheaper American whiskey. This was the limit 
of our "wine list" for many years. At length 
a brewery was built. This was a Godsend, al- 
though it was a very coarse beer in comparison 
to the fine beers we get now. The building of 
the first brewery on Puget Sound was the be- 
ginning of kk temperance" on Puget Sound. I 
am talking from the record of "personal ex- 
perience," and not from the writings of some 
irresponsible "penny-a-liner" who has come 
into our midst since the advent of the railroads 
to Puget Sound. 

I wish to point out that where the saloons 
are not is the place of all others that the roar 
goes up against them, and in the locations 
where they are there is but very little com- 
plaint against them. Corroborative of this as- 
sertion, I point to this city of a quarter of a 
million inhabitants, with fourteen wards and 
315 saloons. The saloons are confined to five 
wards in the business part of the city. At a 
city election held here four years ago the Pro- 
hibition vote in the Ninth ward, which is three 
miles away from any saloon, was nearly double 
that of the total Prohibition vote of all five of 
the saloon wards put together, and yet there 
are precincts in some of these saloon wards 
whose population is double that of the whole 
Ninth ward. There is no doubt but some large 

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towns and cities have been carried upon this 
unjust basis for Prohibition. If this is the 
standard of Prohibition ethics, then I must say 
that they are sober, industrious and depraved; 
their aims are not to enhance the spirit of 
equity or morality, but to promote "cunning," 
which President Eoosevelt so emphatically says 
must be " shackled." The patrons of the sa- 
loon do not cultivate " cunning/ ' for alcoholic 
drink liberates the tongue. " Cunning' 9 is the 
feminine part of the devil, and is found more 
often in the pulpit than in the saloon. I find 
that the most prominent of all Prohibitionists 
are they who never set foot inside of a saloon, 
so in reality he knows nothing whatever about 
them; so, having to dqpend upon others for 
their data, they promulgate their impressions 
by proxy, as it were, and this leads to falsifica- 
tion, but having been taught for so many years 
by the ignorant and presumptious that Prohibi- 
tion is a virtue, he always mistakes his inso- 
lence and his arrogance for dignity. He is 
"drunken but not with wine," as the prophet 
Isaiah says. 

A very stupid law is that which prevents any 
saloon from being established within "three 
miles of a state university," less the students 
might become corrupted, so we treat them just 
as we do the irresponsible Indians, putting 
them on a government reservation and making 
them wards of the government instead of trust- 
ing to their manhood and their own personal 
accountability. This is a good way to breed 



"sissies." 



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Another comparison to make in this line of 
thought is that of the English railroads and 
our own railroads. At every English railroad 
station of any note there is the saloon right in 
the station, belonging to the railroad company. 
There you can buy all the liquor you please, 
whether you are a passenger or 
whether you are an employe of the 
railroad company. At American rail- 
road stations there are no saloons whatever, 
and yet we kill upon our lines more than a 
hundred to one on the English lines, and they 
make as good time as we do, and pass through 
a more thickly settled country than we do, and 
they get all the beer and spirits they choose 
to buy right there at the railroad station, whilst 
at our railroad stations you can get none. What 
will the Prohibitionist do with this lesson? 

Another comparison occurs to my mind. In 
this port we often have here both American 
and English warships. In the American navy 
no liquor is served to either officers or crew; 
in the English navy they have "rum" served 
out to them every day, and the ships carry a 
" canteen" as well, furnished with beer, which 
is sold to all who wish to buy for their private 
use of an evening after the duties of the day 
are ended, but if any of the crew "gets drunk" 
his "rum" is stopped and his "canteen privi- 
leges" are suspended for a time as a punish- 
ment. When these crews come on shore, I find 
that the "rum" and "beer drinking" English- 
men are better behaved in every respect than 
are our own men-of-warsmen. The saloon is a 

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greater attraction to the American when he 
gets on shore than it is to the English, so he 
generally drinks too much, whilst the Britisher, 
who gets all he wants on board ship, does not 
get drunk, for the reason that the liquor is 
neither a treat nor a novelty to him. 

I could present a few more useful compari- 
sons, but the limit of "one thousand words" is 
reached. 

Respectfully submitted by 

ed'ward clayson, sr. 



COLLIER'S THE NATIONAL WEEKLY 
418 West 13th St., New York. 

Dear Sir: We beg to return herewith the 
enclosed manuscript, which we regret we are 
unable to use. 

We wish to say, however, that rejection does 
not in any way reflect upon the value of the 
manuscript, and that it is not necessarily un- 
available for use in other periodicals. It sim- 
ply indicates that the matter is- not suited for 
the present needs of Collier's. 
Yours truly, 

THE EDITORS. 



It will be observed that this letter is "not 
dated," but the envelope in which this note 
was enclosed bears the postoffice stamp of 
April 21, New York. The note also states, as 
you will observe, that "the matter is not suited 
for the present needs of Collier's." The pres- 
ent needs, remember. This implies that future 

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needs of Collier's are uncertain. They are evi- 
dently waiting to see which way the political 
wind blows, and they will then trim their sails 
to the wind. Collier's are very wise, but not 
verv brave. 



COWBOY PREACHER VS. EDITOR OP THE 

PATRIARCH. 

Sailor vs. Cowboy. 

As most of our readers know, we " bearded 
the lion in his den" last Saturday evening, or, 
in other words, we met the "Cowboy Preach- 
er," who turned out to be a bellowing calf, in 
his tent, and not a lion. As a humani- 
tarian physician will always minister to 
the sick and destitute "without pay," so 
will I "administer to a mind diseased" 
without pay, but in the present instance 
it is like "throwing pearls before swine," 
although a hog will give a grunt of recognition 
occasionally, if not of gratitude, to the man 
who feeds him, but not a "woman" suffrage or 
a prohibition hog. This tortuous rabble wear- 
ing the uniform of a traitorous son and daugh- 
ter without blush, conducting their infamous 
orgies amidst their peers, grinning Japs and 
nigger wenches — the converted — conducted as 
they are and manipulated by a "Cowboy 
Preacher," presents a motley group of degen- 
erates, not to be met with in any other part of 
the earth but Seattle, the Terminal City of the 
World. This "uniformed rabble," the trump- 
eter's brigade who are branded with the igno- 
minious stamp of Judas, in order to demon- 

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tsrate their superior standard of morals, and 
echo the depraved sentiments of the "Cowboy 
Preacher" at the same time, did, during the 
" debate' ' continually echo and re-echo that 
stupid effeminate monotone in a very audible 
voice, for the purpose of showing that they 
were "loil" to the good cause, exclaim: "Hi 
wonder hif 'e 'ad a mother?" This stupid ex- 
clamation is the very acme of wisdom and vir- 
tue with the "woman suffragists." It repre- 
sents their full capacity for either mental or 
moral receptivity; they are legitimate prey for 
a "Cowboy Preacher," and are objects of pity 
and contempt to the moral philosopher. "I 
wonder if he had a mother." Yes, he, Balling- 
ton Booth, and Maud, his degenerate wife, who 
deserted and played the traitor to both his 
"Father and his Mother," in order to serve the 
Devil in Hell ; he, the Judas of the Booth fam- 
ily, that he is, put himself at the head of the 
most degenerate mob of self-seekers in Amer- 
ica, and his latest acquisition is the "Cowboy 
Preacher," who I should judge by his own con- 
fessions of early training, landed in a theologi- 
cal college instead of the penitentiary. This 
bovine bunco bullcon peddler was the clown of 
the circus at the "debate" last Saturday even- 
ing, and like the clown, whose office it is to en- 
tertain the "silly portion" of the audience, but 
is incapable of taking any part in the more 
skilful exercises of the porf ormers, who attract 
the thoughtful and the intellectual. The bel- 
lowing of this "Ballington Booth Bilk," the 
"Cowboy Preacher," intimates very strongly 

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that he is a " Cowboy/ ' and that he never tast- 
ed the "milk of human kindness" from a lov- 
ing mother's breast in his life, but was fed from 
a rubber sucking bottle filled with "Bovine 
Juice," hence his "fierceness," showing that 
he has imbibed the brutal qualities of his foster 
mother the "Cow." All names have some fun- 
damental origin of their progenitors, and it 
now appears that the foundation of a modern 
family of brutes is about to be made by the 
name of "Cowboy," and if they become the 
true type of Sa±~ Bettes, the quadruped parts 
of their anatomy will be one-half bovine, one 
quarter baboon and the biped part, the other 
quarter, will be poltroon. This description 
forms the fundamental mongrelism of the 
"Cowboy" himself as exemplified at the "de- 
bate," for the moment that he quit bellowing 
like a cow he at once assumed the antics of the 
baboon, and when he attempted to be serious 
he at once became a poltroon. The "plagiariz- 
ing Cowboy Preacher" at this "debate" never 
uttered one single original idea; not one! His 
was merely a re-hash of meaningless gab and 
noise, mistaken by fools for music, which has 
been doing service for degeneracy under the 
title of "woman suffrage" and prohibition for 
the past forty years. "Sam the Cowboy," in 
his plagiarisms, says: "I accept it as a fact 
that a man who does not know a transitive verb 
from a rat-hole has the right to talk of the sa- 
loon as an educator." We second the motion, 
Sammy, and admit that he may be in an un- 
warranted position as an educator, but he may 

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be at the same time a keen observer and a true 

moralist, who knows instantaneously the 
"transient knave* ' from the permanent gentle- 
man. I had entertained the hope that I was 
to meet a man of knowledge at that " debate,' ' 
where my time might have been spent to ad- 
vantage to myself, if nothing more ; but alas, I 
was sorely disappointed in this, for I learned 
literally nothing, as the " Cowboy's' ' side was 
nothing but "tinkling cymbals and sound- 
ing brass," which was presented in 
the "bass clef" (as the "Cowboy" 
could not get away from nature entire- 
ly). But his tune was entirely in the "treble 
clef," so you see his standard of discord. You 
cannot sing bass and treble at the same time. 
"Discord" is disorder, and "order is heaven's 
first law," whilst disorder is hell's first tri- 
umph. The "Cowboy Preacher" is reaching 
out for disorder and hell as fast as he knows 
how, but I do not wish him to reach his destiny 
via Seattle. The "Seattle Spirit" is already 
overburdened with corruption, and as it was 
the "last straw which broke the camel's back," 
we cannot afford to carry the corrupt burden 
of the "Cowboy Preacher" on and on to his 
hellish, effeminate destiny. As "public discus- 
sion is the bulwark of liberty," so does "si- 
lence give consent." Silence enables the 
"muck breeder" to continue propagating his 
muck, but "public discussion" is the muck 
raker who exposes the roots of the "muck 
breeder ' ' to the noonday sun, which at once 
enfebles the muckers, if it does not destroy 

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them. The " Keg-meggers' * brigide prefer si- 
lence, for "men love darkness better than 
light when their deeds are evil." I admit that 
purity loses caste when it responds to the 
challenge of the "muck breeders"; Dr. Mat- 
thews recognizes this, but "self-preservation is 
the first law of nature," and the " Keg-meg- 
gers ' Brigade" of muck breeders must be 
rooted out, in order to arrest contamination. 
This is a very disagreeable duty for the moral- 
ist to perform, but someone must do it, or we 
must perish. A noxious weed will never die by 
being "let alone." It must be rooted out! 
Never in the whole history of the "Queen City" 
(Seattle) was there ever displayed such a reli- 
gious mockery as at this "Temple of Judas" 
(the tent), stamped as it is, with the infamy 
of "Ballington Booth, the Ahab and his Jezebel 
wife, Maud"; they are true types of the 
"House of Ahab," who, in the name of religion, 
operating under the diabolical influence of 
Jezebel, the wickedest woman that ever wore a 
diadem, with the assistance of the "Priests of 
Baal" drove that man of God, Elijah the Tish- 
bite, into the woods to starve. But you know 
the story: they failed. When the "Cowboy 
preacher" reads this, acting the part of 
"Ahab," as he does, he might well exclaim 
in the language of the degenerate "Ahab": 
"Hast thou found me, mine enemy?" or 
again, in the language of the "effeminate 
Ahab": "Art thou he that troubleth Israel?" 
Yes, I will trouble him ! He spoke to five hun- 
dred with his blasphemous tongue. I will 

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speak to twenty-five thousand (this day) with 

my virtuous pen, and I will place the stigma of 
perfidy upon him and them, in order that the 
spirit of justice may view them in all their 
nakedness; into the pillory they go! " What's 
in a name ? " A rose by any other name would 
smell as sweet, and a skunk by any other name 
would smell as foul. The name "Cowboy 
preacher" presented in a jesting manner, for 
"advertising purposes/' is the correct descrip- 
tion of "Sam Bettes," the "Cowboy preacher." 
There is "many a true word spoken in a jest." 
Sam Bettes bears all the ear-marks, both in 
language, and in appearance, of the typical 
frontier gambler and the "cowboy." We of 
Puget Sound, in early days, previous to the ad- 
vent of the railroads, had him here, in all his 
cheap wit, cunning, and blackguardism of the 
Sam Bettes standard. As the ' i cowboy preach- 
er" represents the refuse of the cowboys of the 
plains, so did his prototype of Puget Sound 
represent the refuse of the sailors of ships ; but 
the sailors, in their vocation, enjoyed a great 
advantage over the cowboys, for they came in 
contact with men from all parts of the world, 
so when they went wrong, it was not because 
of ignorance, but of a desire to practice vil- 
lainy for pelf. But with the "cowboy," of 
the "Sam Bettes type, it is different, as ignor- 
ance, presumption, brutality and blackguard- 
ism, is their normal condition. "Where ignor- 
ance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise," and the 
"cowboy preacher" lives in blissful ignorance, 
supported by the most degenerate tribe in the 

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United States, who wear the uniform of that 
moral "paricide, and f ratricide, ' ' Ballington 
Booth ; who plays the role of Benedict Arnold ; 
who betrayed his trust, and sold out both fath- 
er, mother, brothers and sisters, in order that 
he might gratify a monstrous, selfish ambition, 
and serve the parvenues of New York, as he 
did in the beginning of his infamous career. 
He is now serving the degenerates of Seattle, 
and his mouthpiece, in the present instance, is 
Sam Bettes, the " cowboy preacher,' ' whose 
principal following, here, is the "cuckold mak- 
ers' brigade,' f whose infamous practices are 
being enhanced by a notorious "Woman Law- 
yeress." "We take no pleasure in seeing hu- 
man nature thus degraded, and if they had not 
been forced upon our notice we should not have 
vouchsafed to them anything but a word of 
scorn and abhorrance, such as we continually 
fling at their peers — the "cuckold makers' 
brigade." By attempting to enshrine this ef- 
feminate offal," we have been forced to gibbet 
it, and from the eminence of infamy upon which 
we have placed it, we think they cannot easily 
take it down. 



A Pew Declarations. 

Here are a few declarations made by Mr. 
Clayson at the "woman's suffrage debate," 
never before given to the world by any other 
writer or speaker : 

No. 1 — "Truth is masculine; falsehood is 
feminine." 

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No. 2 — " Whenever you see a woman out on 
the rostrum expressing eternal truths, it is the 
masculine part of her that is declaring itself.' ' 

No. 3 — "Whenever you see a man that is 
cunning, and deceitful, it is his feminine part 
which is expressing itself.' ' 

No. 4 — "A mother who dries up the maternal 
fountains in order that she may "look like a 
maid" is a degenerate. Is she ashamed of 
motherhood?" 

No. 5 — "There is not a single thing that wo- 
man can do, but man can do better. He can 
even trim woman's hats and feathers, trim 
their dresses with ornamentations, etc., etc., 
more artistically than can woman." 

No. 6 — "Woman is a grand helmeet, but a 
miserable equal, for the standard of equity can 
be established by no other process than that 
of man coming down to woman's level, as she 
cannot rise to his." 

No. 7 — "Mother Dunniway, the most intel- 
lectual woman suffragist on the coast, when 
seeking signers from men to her petition, al- 
ways took a good-looking young woman with 
her ; she knew that men would respond quicker 
to the request of a young woman, with physical 
beauty, than they would to her own intelli- 
gence ; thus, she prostituted the minds of men, 
and the influence would be brought to bear 
if i woman suffrage' was adopted." 

No. 8 — " Effeminacy has ever preceded the 
downfall of nations, and Rome commenced to 
go down when woman began to rule." 

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No. 9 — "There is no such a thing on earth as 
a democratic women in 'power.' Give a woman 
'power' and she at once becomes aristocratic. 
Royalty, and aristocracy has nothing to fear, 
but all to gain, from 'woman suffrage.' " 

No. 10 — "Queen Victoria was admired all 
over the world as a faithful wife, and a mother, 
not as a Queen." 

• No. 11 — "There is always a man — "the 
premier" — in charge of the Ship of State in 
Enland, and the Queen must submit to his dic- 
tation, as she dare not exercise her sovereign 
prerogatives against his will. The political in- 
fluence of the Queen of England is not equal to 
that of the Yankee school marm." 

No. 12 — "No married man should take any 
step whatever of interest to the family, without 
first consulting his wife ; if he does, he does not 
give her a chance to be his 'helpmeet'; but, if 
a difference of opinion arises, then who is to 
exercise the prerogative?" 

No. 13 — With years, man gets wisdom; wo- 
man gets vanity." 

No. 14 — "God in His mandates declares: 'I 
will visit the sins of the fathers upon the chil- 
dhen,' not the mothers', remember. The wo- 
man is not held responsible, but the 'fathers.' " 

No. 15 — "It is the cuckold mill which is de- 
stroying the domestic life of Seattle; not the 
whisky mill. 

No. 16— "You, sir (to the Cowboy preacher), 
boast of your 'ability to box'; let me tell you 

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that a man may be a double-action John L. 
Sullivan with muscle of iron, and be able to 
slaughter an ox with one blow of his first, and 
still have an 'effeminate' mind; and on the 
other hand he may be a very small man, and 
still be possessed of all the 'masculine vir- 
tues/ " 

No. 17— "Let me tell you, sir, that it takes 
the 'average foreignborn citizen' many years' 
struggle with his better nature before he gets 
down to the moral level of the average native- 
born American citizen. Until we can teach the 
world morals, as well as offer it lands, golds, 
iron, wheat, meat, fruits, etc., etc., the republic 
is not a success." 

No. 18. As man is both the provider and 
protector of woman, whether in his primitive 
condition or in the highest order of civilization, 
so must he ever be her leader, or her dictator, 
if needs be, not only for the benefit of society 
generally, but for women particularly. The 
quills upon the fretful effeminate porcupine 
will quiver with rage at this honest and truth- 
ful assertion, but what does the king of the 
forest (the lion) care for the hostility of the 
porcupine? For even his roar puts the whole 
of his inferiors to flight, being conscious of his 
own superiority, he can afford to roar and let 
the whole inhabitants know his exact location. 
Cumtux? 

No. 19. "As falsehood is always used as a 
weapon by the weaker against the stronger, so 
must women always be greater liars than men." 
What will the "bearded effeminate" do with 
this eternal truism J 

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No. 20. He who declares that the sexes are 
equal is an antagonizer of the sexes; and he 
who antagonizes the sexes is a criminal. 

No. 21. The mothers in America are the an- 
gels we should worship. Yes, indeed, they are 
the " strong-minded' ' who remain true to their 
marriage vows and show their womanly 
strength by resisting the infamous innovations 
of the woman's rights demagogues, the divorce 
shyster and the "procreative stagnator." 

No. 22. When the race degenerates, man 
goes down, with woman in the lead. When 
the race regenerates, woman goes up, with 
man in the lead. This is the history of the 
world. 

No. 23. "As the Greeks can tell who was the 
first man in their history that murdered his 
father or moJther, so can the Romans tell who 
was the first man in their history who divorced 
his wife." Their names are held up to exe- 
cration, being in the same moral category with 
the first murderer, Cain. 

No. 24. When a man loses his audacity his 
virtue goes with it; when awoman loses her 
modesty her virtue goes with it. This marks 
the difference in virtue between man and 
woman. 

No. 25. Modesty in woman is always a vir- 
tue ; in man it is generally impotency. 

No. 26. When a gray-headed, old, "bearded 
effeminate" performs the "prostrations act" 
to a young wench not yet in her teens, he mis- 
takes his pusillanimity for gallantry, and she 
mistakes her insolence for dignity They are 
both deceived. This is one of the formulas of 
American degeneracy. 

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No. 27. In love, the barbarian is the equal 
of the civilized man; in "duty" the civilized 
man is the superior of the barbarian. Love 
does not govern the highest standards of civ- 
ilization, but duty. 

No. 28. "Duty" is not found in the "Cuck- 
old mill," but love is there, practicing poly- 
andry and polygamy, whilst hunting for its 
affiinity. 

No. 29 — Dr. Matthews is denounced by the 
"woman suffrage queens of the Queen City" 
for his vigorous stand against their infamous 
presumption, but he is sustained by the three 
greatest moralists in America, President Roose- 
velt, Tom Watson and Cardinal Gibbons. 

No. 30 — The Prophet Isaiah says: "As is 
the mother so is her daughter." lie did not 
say, as is the mother so is her son, nay, nay. 
The son of a noble sire can be held down to 
the level of a degenerate mother in his infan- 
cy, but when he becomes a man he soars away 
up to the moral standard of his sire, but a 
daughter never. 

No. 31 — Man's angels are all women; God's 
angels are all men. 

No. 32 — Not one woman in ten who applies 
for a divorce that has serious cause for it, 
whilst not one man in ten who applies for di- 
vorce but has the most serious cause, and yet 
the degenerates claims that virtue is a matter 
of sex, and that woman has a monopoly of it ; 
If all "liars are to go to burning hell" the 
devil already has his claws upon the bearded 

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effeminates, and his peers, the political ama- 
zons. 

No. 33— St. Paul says: "When I was a child 
I spake as a child, and thought as a child, but 
when I became a man I put away childish 
things." This great Apostle of Christ also 
says: "Be ye not effeminate." 

No. 34 — Jesus Christ rebuked His own moth- 
er when she merely made suggestions to Him. 
He exclaimed: "Woman, what have I to do 
with thee?" What a damn pretty set of Chris- 
tians these "woman suffrage prohibitionists 
are. 

No. 35 — Character is worth mere to a nation 
than education. Woman can teach the latter, 
but she cannot create or mold the former. 

No. 36 — A vote is nothing but a declaration 
it is the force at the back of it which makes 
it effective. A "vote" in itself is about as use- 
less as a "resolution" at a "woman suffrage 
convention." 

No. 37 — When Patrick Henry, at the Raleigh 
Tavern (a place where they sold rum), ex- 
claimed: "Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the 
First had his Cromwell, and George the Third 
—Treason!" shouted the speaker. Treason 
treason was echoed round the house, while Hen- 
ry, fixing his eye on the first interrupter, con- 
tinued without faltering, may profit by their 
example, if this is treason, make the most of 
it." This was the action of a virtuous "mas- 
culine." He stood out "alone," as all great 
men ever have. What a stupid impotent ex- 

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pression, a thousand "effeminate votes' ' would 
have been in this connection. 

No. 38 — Shakespeare says, the husband is the 
master of the house, Webster says the husband 
is the head of the family. So we see that a 
woman who is contaminated with "woman suf- 
frage" proclivities cannot have a "husband." 
She may have a creature of the male sex with 
fair physical proportions, but of "mental and 
moral femininity." Cum tux? 

No. 39 — I often think of the dignified posi- 
tion of the rostrum -hunter's husband who stays 
at home of an evening, washes up the tea things, 
then sits down all alone and studies "woman's 
rights" literature, and rocks an empty cradle, 
whilst his woman ( I won't say wife, the name 
is too sacred) rushes out through all kinds of 
weather, hunting the rostrum, for the purpose 
of instructing depraved man upon his moral 
obligations. This is what the "new woman" 
and her degenerate peer calls progress. T call 
it an effeminate hell, with a bearded Jav-"Rird 
in a cage, effeminately vanquished. Cumtux? 

No. 40 — "Woman's most effective weapons 
are falsehood and tears." 

No. 41 — -Refinement bears no relation what- 
ever to virtue. The very reverse is true. The 
world stands aghast at the standard of wicked- 
ness which has developed in America during 
the past forty years, the "rubber sucking bot- 
tle period," during this period masculine vir- 
tue has became dormant, and in like propor- 
tion has effeminacy become rampant. 

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No. 41 — If refinement had anything whatever 
to do with virtue, then people living in cities 
would be more virtuous than people living in 
the country, but the reverse is true. 

No. 42 — It has been said, from time to time, 
that: "If a woman is fit to teach she is surely 
fit to vote." A stronger argument could not be 
used in favor of "woman suffrage." But she 
is unfit to teach, we believe in Rabbi Schind- 
ler, a scholarly Hebrew, who declares as fol- 
lows: "When a boy goes to school, he not only 
goes there to learn the multiplication table, his- 
tory, geography and other branches of educa- 
tion, but his "character" is molded there and 
the "spirit of effeminacy" now so prominent 
in America, is due to an overwhelming prepon- 
derance of women teachers in the public 
schools." The rabbi is right. Woman is unfit 
to teach. 

No. 43 — The very first thing a boy learns at 
school in America is, woman to teach, man to 
be instructed, woman in authority, man in sub- 
jection. So she makes him characterless at 
school, by the example of woman in authority, 
and then dominates him all through life. Ye 
gods, where are we at ! 

No. 44 — The school marm, poor girl, is not 
to blame for this characterless progeny of hers 
legalized paramour from the justifiable ven- 
any more than she is answerable for being a 
woman. She cannot give that "desirable char- 
acter" which she herself does not possess. 

No. 45 — It is only where nature is stronger 

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than education in America, that " masculine 
virtue" survives. 

No. 46 — The woman suffrage-Prohi who calls 
hiself a Christian is a blasphemous mocker of 
both the old testament and the new testament, 
for he makes faces at the prophets and repu- 
diates Christ too. They are the same old hyp- 
ocrites and pharisees. 

No. 47 — When a "bearded effeminate' 9 trots 
out his peer, the political amazon to perform 
the "horse- whipping act" in his defense, as he 
does sometimes, he should be very careful who 
he steers her up against, for men of good sense 
who are "attacked by a panther" do not wait 
to see what sex it is before defending himself. 
Cumtux ? 

No. 48 — The curses of a virtuous father are 
more potent than the prayers of a wicked moth- 
er. The former have ever been religiously ob- 
served in all the sanctuaries on earth, pagan 
and Christian alike, whilst the latter is the 
"holy of holies" in that effeminate institute^ 
the "American Cuckold Mill." 

No. 49 — In all churches that are "effeminate- 
ly vanquished," and about all the Methodist 
and Baptist churches in America are, hyproc- 
risy is mistaken for morality. This is a wretch- 
ed state of degeneracy, when such a large vol- 
ume of people are actually unconscious of their 
own depravity. 

No. 50 — These fifty truisms, written and pub- 
lished for the purpose of doing good and never 
before given to the world in a similar man- 

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ner, will be received by fools with the ex- 
clamation: "Down-on-de-wimmin," which is 
answered in the proverle of Solomon: "Though 
thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among 
wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolish- 
ness depart from him. 



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THE WOMAN LAWYERESS. 
A New Cuckold Advocate. 

This new law office is opened by Leonia W. Browne 
and notification is sent out on engraved stationery — 
not only engraved, but with a monogram embossed, 
and the enclosed card, even, is engraved. Mrs. 
Browne is the fair attorney who attracted attention 
recently by successfully arguing a divorce case in 
the superior court, her first appearance before the 
bench. It is apparent that she has set a new mark 
in formal announcements. 

We hope that this notorious "woman law- 
yeress" will get as rich and as rotten as is her 
vocation. We hope that her "monstrous enter- 
prise' ' will bring her an immense fortune. She 
will then be deified as the "legal godess ot' in- 
fame." Her infamous mission to Seattle was 
proclaimed in large type, and a very large pic- 
ture of her occupied a conspicuous position in 
that document of corruption, The Seattle Daily 
Crimes. Her unblushing proclamation in this 
infamous publication declared from the house- 
top that she came amongst us with a "mission." 
Her mission is from the lowest depths of hell, 
prompted by the most perfidious, the most un- 
clean, the most detestable, the most destructive 
of all which is most sacred in family life. She 
herself has so declared! Now let her have free 

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scope ! Let us be as honest in our degradation 
as she is in her proclamation. She declared 
that she came amongst us in the interest of 
"legalized cuekoldry," and the result of her 
"published proclamation" was that the "cuck- 
old applicants' ' on the official "roll of in- 
famy," at the Temple of Infame on Profanity 
Hill, Seattle, increased 400 per cent in one 
week. Ye gods, what a triumph for "legal- 
ized whoredom!" The dignified position of 
this petticoat solicitor is that of an official 
baud "above the deadline." The United 
States commission declared that Seattle was 
the rottenest pesthole of cuckoldry in America, 
before this afficial baud came amongst us, with 
the purpose of making a fortune out of our 
rottenness. May she succeed! Her success 
would be a test of our virtues. Let us push 
our "criminal rights" to the full limit of the 
law. And how befitting it is, too, that this 
unholy retrogression should be led by a 
woman in this "The Terminal City of the 
World!" The public press of this city has 
been used for the purpose of advertising the 
effeminate luxuries with which this cuckold 
maker's nest is adorned. This "affinity dive" 
is dignified by the title of "Law Office" in the 
New York Block. This is a free ad. When- 
ever we advertise the "cuckold maker's trade" 
we charge nothing for it. Such "foul fiends" 
might be acceptable to "Benny Benedict's" 
Methodist Church at Green Lake, among the 
Prohibitionists, but the toughest saloon in 
town would refuse such "foul fiends." Any 

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woman in Seattle between the ages of 18 and 
60 can have eighty-three legal husbands. Now 
since the advent in our midst of this fictional 
"functioness" of the law, those legalized jades 
who assume an air of respectability and moral 
superiority over their sisters in the "restricted 
district* ' will be encouraged in the unrestricted 
district to push their legal rights to the full 
limit, encouraged and protected by their guar- 
dian angel. "Lioness Browne,' ' the lawyeress 
of infame. 



NEW THOUGHTS! WHO DO THEY BE- 
LONG TO? 

No one can give what he has not. — Latin. 

Very true, and he has no right to hold that 
which he has, unless he himself created it. No 
man ever created a thought ! This is something 
new to you thoughtless thinkers, is it not? Did 
you ever hear such a declaration before, except 
in the columns of this paper? Thoughts come 
from where? No one knows. They are both 
holy and unholy ; pure and impure ; useful and 
useless; elevating and degrading. There is a 
tribe of thoughtless aspirants who call them- 
selves "Free Thoughtest," who publish tons of 
rotten literature, and they think they are pro- 
gressive monitors — the fools ! Thoughts are free 
in spite of any individual mind, in which they 
first appear, to control them ; thoughts come and 
go in spite of a temporary possessor. Where do 
they go? No one knows; whence they came, 
no one knows. Someone has said that "he who 
lets a valuable thought escape him is a crimi- 
nal.' 9 There is much' in this, and I will add 

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that he who cherishes and promulgates a "bad 
thought' ' is a worse criminal than he who lets a 
good thought escape. Thus we see the respon- 
sibility of the individual who can control his 
will, his actions, but not his thoughts. Those 
fools who spend so much money and time upon 
what they erroneously call "Free Thought/ ' 
would be in a more intelligent and truthful posi- 
tion if they called themselves "Free Actionists" 
or "Free Speakers," instead of "Free Thought- 
ists." These erroneous workers mistake action 
or gab for thought. When a man sits down 
and thinks he is merely trying to remember 
something he has forgot, or he is trying to devel- 
ope to its fullness the thought which already 
exists in his mind — probably the recorded 
thought of others — thus he is a "valuable 
worker," and if he succeeds in developing some- 
thing of value to society we give him a copy- 
right, or a patent for his "labor," not for his 
"thought." Education is very useful to the 
thoughtful man with a strong mind, one who 
can "bear the burden of thought," but to force 
upon weak minds or even commonplace minds 
great intellectual burdens is as criminal as it 
is stupidly ambitious, for it invariably proves 
disastrous to the victim, as it incapacitates him 
for commonplace positions in life where he 
would be both useful to himself, and a valuable 
member to the commonweal at the same time. 
Education, as a whole, is merely the "recorded 
thoughts" of the most valuable minds, which 
cannot be over estimated, but the whole volume 
of edcuation never "created a thought." Cum- 
tux? 

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The power of the press was never more forci- 
bly illustrated than that of the Hearst papers 
in the recent exposures of Foraker and Haskel. 
If Mr. Hearst had no papers, or if he had but 
one paper, we might say, which reached possi- 
bly one hundred thousand readers, then the ' ' ex- 
posures" which have been ventilated within the 
past few days would have been silenced down 
by the great papers; their " extensive patron- 
age" which they enjoy from the " powerful 
frauds which Hearst exposed would have silenc- 
ed them without a doubt, but Mr. Hearst having 
so many papers reaching "millions of readers," 
he forced the other great papers to publish the 
news given out by Mr. Hearst from the public 
platform. If they had not done this they would 
have been as ridiculous as W. J. Bryan was two 
weeks ago when he declared that he had "no 
time to defend honesty," but Hearst forced him 
to come to time and defend (as far as he could) 
rascality. Does anyone of common sense think 
for a moment that Mr. Hearst could not have 
sold his silence at ANY PRICE he choosed to 
name? Most assuredly he could, and he being 
strong enough to resist such a great material 
temptation places him in a pre-eminent position 
as a "great publisher," and this moral bravery 
should bring him a great many supporters in the 
political field which he has entered. 



Rooseveltianism ! Watsonism! Hearstism are 
the "triune" which must be adopted, if this 
Republic is to go, onward, and upward, and 
Bryanism, with its woman suffrage and other 

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political garbage, must be eliminated; whilst 
Debsism will continue on and on, finding a po- 
litical home for the "idealist" whose imag- 
ination grasps at the "beautiful hues of the 
political rainbow" that are charming vaprous 
shadows which the "socialist" mistakes for sub- 
stance. But they are there, right in sight — a 
misty truth. 



"The fool hath said in his heart, there is no 
God." There is so much gab, and fierce gnash- 
ing of heathenish teeth at the present time 
about God, in many of those small magazines 
which come to hand, that we are prompted to 
say a word about this interesting subject. Great 
students of eminent standing who have studied 
the ancient languages thoroughly, tell us that 
the name "God" in very ancient times was 
"Good," and that it gradually reached its pres- 
ent name (God) and the holy significance by 
which it is now recognized. If this is true, 
and there seems to be no doubt about it, then 
I proclaim from the housetop that I have much 
greater faith in the "goodness" of the human 
family than ever, for what more commendable 
thing could the human mind conceive than to 
deify "Good" by calling it God?" "The fool 
hath said in his heart, there is no God." This 
quotation is from the wisest man that ever lived, 
Solomon, who praised the "great virtues of 
wine." He was no hypocrite, nor a prohibition- 
ist. Hence he rebukes the man and calls him 
a fool who says in his heart there is no "Good." 

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It takes a man who loves life, and the "good" 
things of this life to declare a man to be a fool 
who says in his heart there is no * ' good. ' ' Solo- 
mon was, no doubt, after the prohibitionists of 
his day who loved neither woman, wine nor 
song. We have read in the scriptures some- 
where which says: "God is a spirit;" the 
"good" spirit, of course. We read also that 
"God spake unto Moses." What more holy 
than this: "Good" spoke unto Moses;" the 
' ' good spirit, ' - of course. What better or more 
reasonable construction can we apply than this, 
or what more intelligent conclusion can we 
reach than this? Those "students of ancient 
languages" have given us the "key" which 
seems to fit the door of inquiry and investiga- 
tion upon the word God (Good). We read in 
the scriptures of a "merciful God," and a "re- 
vengeful God." Is there anything conflicting 
about this? Is not "goodness' merciful, and 
is not "goodness" revengeful? A man who is 
destitute of the spirit of revenge against injus- 
tice, tyranny, lying, deceit and all kinds of 
wickedness, has no God (good) in him. The 
spirit of God (good) spoke unto Moses, and 
Abraham, and all the prophets, and it speaks to- 
day as ever. It spoke to Shakespeare, Burnes, 
Moore; it spoke to Washington, Jefferson, Pat- 
rick Henry ; it spoke to Lincoln, Webster, Clay ; 
it speaks today to Tolstoi, Roosevelt, Watson, 
but not to Bryan, for the spirit of God (good) 
is not in a deceitful, characterless man, and a 
worshipper of the golden calf." 

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The saloonkeeper who denounces all churches 
is a big fool, and the preacher who denounces 
all saloonkeepers is a still bigger fool. All that 
is best in the whole civilized world came from 
both places. Individual opinion stands for 
nothing as compared to the recorded evidence 
of all history. The preacher and the publican 
are the two important characters of all others 
in all civilized life. In some small country 
towns, in some of the most moral communities, 
in Europe, where there is no magistrate, the 
publican fills that office, not the preacher; and 
I may remark still farther that a very large 
volume of all that is brightest, best, the most 
entertaining and intellectual came from the 
public houses. The ' ' coffee houses, - ' as they are 
called in many of the largest cities of Europe, 
the cafes and saloons of America today fill the 
same place. Take Webster's Unabridged Dic- 
tionary ; in that vast volume of recorded wit and 
intelligence, what name will you find more fre- 
quently quoted than that of Johnson, the great 
English philosopher and wit ? Page after page 
you will find "Boswells Johnson' ' repeated 
again and again, full of moral philosophy and 
wit. Boswell, although an educated man and a 
lawyer, was not a "man of parts" himself, but 
he had a keen appreciation of those who were 
his superiors in this respect ; so he spent all his 
spare moments, whenever opportunity afforded 
it, at the "coffee house" in the company of 
Johnson over the wine cup, and this shrewd ob- 
server recorded everything which Johnson said. 
He knew that they had a commercial value as 

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well as a great literary significance, so when 
Johnson died out came Boswell's Johnson," be- 
ing a book of great literary value which aston- 
ished and instructed the whole literary world, 
and the valuable matter which "Boswell's John- 
son' ' contains would have been forever lost to 
the world only for the convenience of the cafe 
and the inspiration of the wine cup. Cumtuxf 



A FEARFUL INDICTMENT OF AMERICA 

By President Avery of the Washington State 
Bar Association. 

We regret our inability to present the whole 
of President Avery's address upon such a vital 
subject as it appeared in the P.-I. of August 
25th, 1908. We have made a few selections, 
however, and present them herewith. Our old 
readers will recognize in this wholesome and 
severe rebuke of President Avery the genral 
tenor of scores of articles in "The Patriarch" 
during our seven and a half years publication. 
It is gratifying (though shameful) to find pur 
own "published indictments" endorsed from 
such a distinguished source as this of the presi- 
dent of the Washington State Bar Association, 
who evidently is a brave, intellectual, scholarly 
American of the "old school," determined to 
give his services for the benefit of the people. 
But, sad to say, it is one of those ' ' burdensome 
duties" which none but the "greatest of moral- 
ists will assume, and they must be content with 
"virtue being its own reward," as no appro- 
priate emoluments are associated with such ser- 
vices, for they are above a price. We would 

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recommend the whole of our readers to send 
for the " Seattle Post-Intelligencer" of the date 
above stated, and read the whole lesson. It will 
make thoughtful people think. It is no use to 
appeal to thoughtless people who study noth- 
ing but "business villiany," as they do not 
comprehend that it is the moralist who moves 
the world, not the materialist, and these mate- 
rialistic dunces are utterly ignorant of what 
constitutes a moralist. The shouts of a blather- 
skite in a "gospel tent," the yell of a "prohi- 
tion hypocrite" in the pulpit, and a demagogue 
in politics doing the same thing is their stand- 
ard ideal of morals. Their uniform keg-meg, 
and their effeminate clap-trap stand in marked 
contrast to the strenuous thoughts so ably pre- 
sented by that dignified moral teacher, Presi- 
dent Avery of the Washington State Bar As- 
sociation. To think that such a "vital lesson" 
should be received "in silence" is extremely 
discouraging. If our moral condition was not 
at a very low ebb, the editorial columns of all 
the papers would be ablaze with this subject, 
and the pulpits would echo it from one end of 
the coast to the other. But what are editors 
and preachers doing? They are blasted with 
hypocrisy and demagoguism, shouting "Prohi- 
bition! Prohibition!" and this spirit of tyranny 
they (the majority of them) mistake for mor- 
ality, and those few who know better are shout- 
ing this subterfuge for morals in order to cover 
up their own guilt, whilst the "indictment" of 
President Avery is received in silence. But " si- 

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lence gives consent." It is a true bill of indict- 
ment ! Here are a few selections from it : 

"No more enlightened people exist than those of 
this country. That fact is evidenced by our mar- 
velous growth and advancement in everything that 
goes to make a great and prosperous nation, except 
its respect for the law. To what extent we are thus 
wanting as compared with other countries I shall 
presently attempt to demonstrate, and I regret more 
than I can here express that we are, as a nation, more 
deficient in this respect than any other in the civil- 
ized world. 

"I am not a pessimist. I believe in this country 
and in its ability to lead the world in everything that 
goes to make it more enlightened and better, yet it is 
not only futile, but harmful, to close our eyes to some 
conditions that exist and which must be remedied. 
It is because we have so long ignored these condi- 
tions that they now menace our national life. 
******* 

"A man had been convicted of a crime by the su- 
perior court, a new trial had been refused, and the 
supreme court on appeal had affirmed the verdict 
and judgment of the lower court. While the prisoner 
was still out on bail, a petition was circulated, ask- 
ing for his pardon. It was signed very generally 
and, I believe, by some of the state's officers who 
brought about the conviction, many of the jurors, and 
hosts of friends of the prisoner, and was accompanied 
by a letter from the presiding judge, to the effect that 
the prisoner had not, in his opinion, had a fair trial. 
******* 

"Of course, this disrespect can only make breaches 
of the law more common. Fear as well as respect is 
reduced to a minimum. The unscrupulous man has 
little to lose and much to gain by illegal and dishon- 
est methods and the result is that dishonesty is at 
this time rampant in this glorious country of ours. 
Boys, girls, men and women, by reason of the les- 
sons of disrespect for the law which we daily teach, 
are encouraged to commit crime. 

"One of the large business enterprises of the city 
of Spokane found it necessary to employ a collector 
to collect the monthly accounts against its patrons. 

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Four boys were hired in succession and each was 
discharged because he stole from his collections, and 
the manager informed me that it was almost impos- 
sible to secure honest help of this kind. Was not 
that shocking? But the illustration is not ended. I 
was so impressed with the manager's statement that 
I told it to an acquaintance who responded by say- 
ing, 'What would you expect from boys who receive 
small wages.' 

Try to Justify Thefts. 

"Do you realize the sentiment which that man ex- 
pressed was that if an employer did not give suffi- 
cient wages the employe was justified in stealing 
from him? Yet the man stood well in the community 
in which he lived. I don't know whether the boys 
in question received adequate pay or not — that is 
immaterial, but I do know that the number of peo- 
ple who entertain and express opinions like the one 
just quoted are so great that their pernicious influ- 
ence is rapidly undermining our national life. 

"To deal less generally and more specifically with 
this great menace, let me suggest a few startling 
facts respecting homicides in this country. While 
this is but one character of disrespect for the law, 
it is the most serious and is, perhaps, more suscep- 
tible of comparative treatment than any other. There 
are at this time nearly five times as many homicides 
in this country to each million of people, as in the 
year 1881. In other words, while we wrongfully took 
the life of one human being in 1881, we now take the 
lives of five, and I am allowing due credit for the in- 
crease in population. Does not that suggest some 
reason for alarm? 

"Are we five times as bloodthirsty in 1908 as we 
were in 1881, or have we now but one-fifth of the 
respect for the law that we had then? But you ask, 
what about other countries? Their lawlessness is 
material only to ascertain whether ours is exception- 
al. An inspection of their record, however, only em- 
phasizes our condition. 

America Leads in Homicides. 

"Dear old New England, from whence we have a 

right to expect the best of everything, in proportion 

to population, has twelve times as many homicides 

as the city of London ; in California, they are sev- 

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enty-flve times as numerous as In London, and Ne- 
vada kills 245 persons every time London kills one. 
From another view, New England has nearly a mil- 
lion* less inhabitants than London and has 254 homi- 
cides, while London has 24. California, with" less 
than one-fourth of London's population, has 422 homi- 
cides as against twenty-four in London. 

"During a recent twelve months there were 118 
homicides in Chicago (besides a large number of 
deadly assaults). In Paris, during the same period, 
only fifteen murders occurred, and in London there 
were twenty. In other words, while wicked Paris 
was murdering one human being, Chicago was mur- 
dering eight. 

******* 

"It seems as though these figures should be ap- 
plied to a penal colony instead of the 'land of the free 
and the home of the brave/ We ask why does this 
appalling increase in crime go on beyond all com- 
parison with other countries, and it will be answered 
in many ways. There are probably grave faults in 
our criminal procedure, but the real root of the evil 
is our failure as a people to yield to the law the ven- 
eration to which it is entitled. If those with natur- 
ally good tendencies fail to look upon the law with 
the respect which is due it, what can we expect of 
those with evil tendencies, who obey it, if at all, not 
with conscientious regard, but through fear and fear 
alone? What we need is more obedience to the law 
because it is the law. 

******* 

Material Success Blinds People. 
"Why is it that we are so indifferent? It can only 
be because we have been, as a nation, so successful 
and so prosperous that our material success has 
caused us to forget or disregard matters that are 
really of far greater importance. We create booster 
clubs, chambers of commerce and other bodies to 
exploit the freedom of our respective communities 
from disease, but the fact that this country leads in 
criminality many times over every country in Eu- 
rope, barely creates a comment, and that crime in 
the United States is increasing at an appalling rate 
is acknowledged with almost brutal indifference. The 
editor of one of our law magazines recently said: 

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" 'Only a penal colony to which all the rest of the 
world has transported its worst criminals could show 
such an appalling list of crimes as are committed in 
this enlightened nation, which has been looked upon 
in some respects at least as a leader in civilization. 
In the multitude of other questions that absorb the 
public attention, comparatively little is said or 
thought about the fact that the nation, standing well- 
nigh, if not quite, at the head of all nations in the 
world in most of the elements of civilization, stands 
far below the worst of them in its horrible record of 
crime.' 

"It is easy and popular to charge the courts, and 
the procedure connected therewith, with the respon- 
sibility for this condition, and they are not without 
defects, but I firmly believe that the evil has a deep- 
er root and that the fault lies primarily with the peo- 
ple themselves. If our so-called good citizens fail 
to treat the law with reverence, or at least with re- 
spect what can be expected of those whose sole inter- 
est they believe lies in defying it? 

"Even in the administration of our criminal law, 
the people, so-called, have quite as much responsibil- 
ity as the court. If they as citizens and jurors give 
to the law that loyalty which they exact of the 
courts, considered independent of jurors, they will 
aid greatly in stilling the cry against the miscarriage 
of justice. 

******* 

"Notwithstanding our growing disrespect for the 
law, there seems to be a perfect mania for making 
laws, a goodly portion of which are for the purpose 
of subserving some private end, or trying to control 
the actions of individuals in matters that would be 
controlled and regulated by common sense or com- 
mon decency. 

"What would the framers of our national consti- 
tution have thought had they been told that because 
of the privileges therein granted to the different 
states, such states would attempt with more or less 
success to pass laws prohibiting kissing in public, 
flirting in the park, or making it a ground for divorce 
for the wife to have concealed from her prospective 
husband during their courtship the fact that she wore 
false hair or used cosmetics? Those are but sam- 

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pies of the freak legislation that Is attempted or per* 
petrated at every session of the different legislatures, 
to say nothing of the ordinances of a similar charac- 
ter that are made the law in smaller municipalities. 
Such legislation is not only not helpful, but positively 
harmful, and it is hard to believe that there are 
enough persons legally qualified to enact such laws, 
who would be guilty of it. 

"It is this character of legislation that fosters our 
disrespect for the law generally; the ridicule and con- 
tempt that naturally goes with such legislation Is 
bound to reach enactments of a wholesome and use- 
ful character which have for their object the good of 
the people as a whole. We are overgoverned, and 
one of the gravest effects is its influence on our con- 
ception of the dignity of the law and our consequent 
lack of respect therefor. 

******* 

"What is desired is to ascertain the reason for 
these tendencies, and then to the best of our ability 
remedy them. 

"I trust that the result which I have stated as 
flowing from our disrespect for the law may not be 
considered at the expense of the cause, for that is 
precisely what I desire to guard against. We can, I 
believe, overcome the cause; the effects will then 
more nearly take care of themselves. I do not be- 
lieve that people can be made good by mere legisla- 
tion. Something more is necessary. 

******* 

"In speaking on this subject, I do not flatter myself 
that I have said anything that you do not already 
know, but I cannot believe that it is by all fully ap- 
preciated, and if by these remarks I may be able, in 
any degree, to create an interest, I shall feel grati- 
fied. 

"I have dared to make these comments, feeling 
that even if they were not made in a style that would 
challenge your attention, they would, perhaps, shock 
some person or body into some activity in respect to 
this subject that would directly or indirectly accom- 
plish some good. I am aware that the subject is not 
a new one, and that others have raised a warning 
cry, but that does not prompt me to apologize for 
repeating it— it must be repeated and literally ham* 

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mered through our armor of indifference or the pen* 
ally will he of a nature that I do not like to contem- 
plate." 

President Avery, although a moralist of no 
commonplace standing, and his moral nature 
is evidently stirred to its utmost depths, talks 
more like a lawyer than a " moral philoso- 
pher"; he emphasizes the crime of a "disre- 
gard for law," and he is right; but for a schol- 
arly gentleman of his attainments he did not 
touch the fundamental condition which is the 
root of the evil. Go into our public schools 
today, and of the millions of scholars of both 
sexes between the ages of 6 and 16 you will 
not find two per cent, of them who can repeat 
the Ten Commandments.' ' There is not eight 
per cent, who can repeat three of them, and 
the other ninety per cent, know nothing about 
them at all, nor do they want to know. They 
do not know whether they originated with 
Moses, Christ, George Washington or President 
Roosevelt. Their minds are stimulated and 
their morals are a blank* So they reach matur- 
ity utterly destitute of moral training; in fact, 
the teachers are forbidden by law to give them 
religious instruction; so moral degeneracy is 
promoted under these shameful conditions, the 
multiplication table becomes a "sacred ideal" 
and the "Decalogue" is looked upon as a sat- 
ire upon intelligence. Under these dreadful 
conditions intellectual pursuits become abnor- 
mal, and this abnormality becomes sacred 
whether the intellectual triumph is moral or 
immoral. There are some four hundred law- 
yers' offices in Seattle, and it is pretty safe to 

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say that there is not a Bible in ten of them, 
although "Blackstone" says that "a lawyer 
cannot practice law thoroughly without study- 
ing the Bible; so this condition in the law of- 
fices of Seattle is presumptive evidence, not so 
very speculative either, that they are merely 
"lgal dens," making a living out of legalized 
rascality, made legal by rascally or ignorant 
legislators. " Honor thy father and thy moth- 
er." How many children in Seattle know or 
care anything about this? Children in Seattle 
love their parents as well as they do in any 
other city without a doubt, but they do not 
1 i revere ' ' them. ' ' Reverence ' ' Ihey know noth- 
ing about. Children of savages love their par- 
ents, too, but they know nothing about " honor- 
ing' ' them. The only "reverence" of a savage 
is for the "bow and arow" or the "fish spear," 
and the Indian who can use them the most dex- 
terously; so he is a good materialistic Ameri- 
can. "Delate hi-hu. Cumtux?" Hypocrisy 
and criminality are American jokemates. They 
are keeping pace with each other. Hypocrisy 
is upon the topmost round of the ladder, and 
it is shouting to the world "Prohibition! Pro- 
hibition!!" whilst 525,000 victims, annually, 
are brought under the wheels of the "jugger- 
naut" of sober, industrious depravity, conduct- 
ed by the "Don't Cares," who are indifferent 
to both death and damnation. Hypocrisy 
breeds criminals, and one crime begets another, 
but "the hypocrite's hope shall perish" amidst 
the gnashing of prohibition teeth, being a de- 
generate, irresponsible mob that they are, who 

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are "drunken but not with wine." * * * 
In order to demonstrate our great appreciation 
of " purity" we fine the unfortunate women 
in the "restricted" district ten dollars a 
month and put them under the strict surveil- 
lance of the police, whilst "loose married 
jades" seek the "unrestricted district," and 
are encouraged by law to rob, plunder and 
"cuckold" their husbands, receiving an "offi- 
cial diploma" from the "official cuckold" mak- 
er on Profanity Hill for this purpose. This is 
her lawful permit to practice prostitution re- 
spectably. This "infamous permit" enables 
her to become a shining light in the society 
columns, where she can (being respectable) 
join in the general chorus concerning that 
shameful (?) lot of creatures below the dead- 
line). We ask in all sincerity which baud of 
the two is doing the greatest damage to so- 
ciety; is it the prominent "Emma Norton" of 
the "restricted district," or is it Lenora Lion- 
ess Brown of the "unrestricted district"? Prob- 
ably Benny Benedict, the Methodist preacher 
of Green Lake, can give us the desired infor- 
mation. 



JAP MORALITY. 

Americans are the most inconsistent (or in 
other words, the most dishonest) people on 
earth. "We have reached that standard of deg- 
radation that we will put up with any indig- 
nity or humiliation, either locally, nationally or 

internationally, provided there is "anything in 
it." America used to fight for "honor"; they 

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now fight for the stuff. Our grasping com- 
mercial desires enslave us. We have the great- 
est material opportunities of any people on 
earth. We are so infernally " smart' ' and vil- 
lainous with each other at home that this 
standard of business villainy has become our 
normal condition, and it manifests itself 
abroad, sometimes, so this conduct often places 
a stigma upon Americans who are not deserv- 
ing of it, through the actions of some smart 
traders. 

Until we frown down " smartness,' ' instead 
of showing our approval of it, we shall not at- 
tain to a standard of uprightness which should 
make an American abroad feel proud of his 
countrymen. Our exchanges for the past cou- 
ple of weeks are full of denunciation of the 
"Japs." 

We have taught the Japs this: "To the 
victors belong the spoils." And now we are 
denouncing them for demanding the "spoils" 
which are theirs through the fortunes of war. 
The "mob" in Japan burned all the Christian 
churches they could reach, and assassinated 
the family of their representative at the "peace 
conference." The "mob" is always truthful, 
but the "mob" is not always right, but its ex- 
pression is as reliable as the lightning which 
precedes the clap of thunder. A very large 
majority of our editors are faulty; they set a 
far higher standard upon popularity than they 
do of truthfulness and uprightness. The mem- 
ories of a majority of editors do not seem to 

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last them over night, not even in the most mo- 
mentous affairs. A Japanese scholar passed 
through Seattle a few months ago, and in an 
interview said : ' • We are teaching our children 
in the schools of Japan upon the i American 
plan' as much as possible, but our higher stan- 
dards of education are Chinese Classics.' ' This 
shows that they prefer Chinese ethics to ours. 
Thus we see the spirit that "burned and de- 
stroyed Christian churches/ ' The Japanese, 
like the Chinese, are learning all about our 
business methods, and our system of conduct- 
ing war, and of manufacturing weapons and 
missiles of war. In this they have shown much 
ingenuity and cunning, but as they repudiate 
our standard of " ethics," all the rest of our 
methods of a material nature they have adopted 
is from policy, and not from principle. Prac- 
tical Confucianism is a superior moral condi- 
tion to that of Christian hypocrisy. — Patriarch, 
Sept. 23, 1905. 



PROHIBITION AND LOCAL OPTION. 

By William H. Taft. 

"Nothing is more foolish, nothing more utterly at 
variance with sound public policy than to enact a 
law which, by reason of the conditions surrounding 
the community in which it is declared to be law, is 
incapable of enforcement. Such an instance is some- 
times presented by sumptuary laws, by which the 
sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited under pen- 
alty, in localities where the public sentiment of the 
immediate community does not and will not sustain 
the enforcement of the law. In such cases the 
legislation is usually the result of agitation by peo- 
ple in the country who are determined to make 

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their fellow citizens in the city better, the enact- 
ment of the law comes through the country repre- 
sentatives, who form a majority of the legislature; 
but the enforcement of the law is among the people 
who are generally opposed to its enactment, and 
under such circumstances the law is a dead letter. 
This result is the great argument in favor of so- 
called local option, which is really an instrumental- 
ity for determining whether a law can be enforced 
before it is made operative. In cases where the sale 
of liquor cannot be prohibited in fact, it is far better 
to regulate and diminish the evil than to attempt to 
stamp it out. By the enactment of a drastic law and 
tx±e failure to enforce it, there is injected into the 
public mind the idea that laws are to be observed or 
violated according to the will of those observed or 
violated according to the will of those affected. I 
need not say how altogether pernicious such a loose 
theory is. General Grant said that the way to secure 
the repeal of a bad law was to enforce it. But when 
the part of the community which enacts the law is 
not the part affected by its enforcement, this is not a 
practical method. The constant violation or neglect 
of any law leads to a demoralized view of all laws, 
and the choice of the laws to to be enforced then 
becomes as uncertain as the guess of a political ex- 
ecutive in respect to public opinion is likely to make 
it. Such a policy constantly enlarges in the com- 
munity the class 01 men with whom the sacredness 
of the law does not exist."— Prom "FOUR ASPECTS 
OP CIVIC DUTY" (Pages 46, 47, 48) by WILLIAM 
H. TAFT. 



SLAUGHTER BY THE DON'T OAEES. 

Our customary slaughter for the past two 
weeks on the railroads and other places, has 
been unusually large. It will take at least the 
passing away of this generation in America of 
" Don't Cares" and the breeding of a genera- 
tion of "Do Cares" before this "reckless mur- 
der" will cease. You cannot have careful men 

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without disciplined boys, and you cannot have 
disciplined boys with women in charge of the 
public schools. This is the fundamental source 
of the "Don't Cares,' ' and we are paying a 
fearful price for maintaining the irresponsible 
instead of the responsible in the public schools. 
The sooner that "women" are dismissed from 
this responsible position, and men are put in 
their places, the sooner will you have disciplin- 
ed boys, which signifies "Do Care" men. Please 
observe the pusillanemous spectacle of the na- 
tive born American toward all women, between 
the ages of 10 and 50 years. (Men over 50 
years of age do not do this. He knows better.) 
He performs the "prostration act" towards all 
petticoats, old and young alike ; moral and im- 
moral alike, cultured or illiterate alike. He is 
a "schooled" degenrate, but he is not to blame 
for his degeneracy. He has been trained to 
acknowledge women as his instructor and his 
superior. This is why his "masculine charac- 
ter" is dormant and "effeminate pusillanim- 
ity" is active in him, and he cherishes "cun- 
ning and effeminacy" as an ideal instead of 
masculine virtue. To perform a duty under 
men is irksome to him. Now, please observe 
his conduct towards all men, both young and 
old, moral or immoral, cultivated or unculti- 
vated alike. He is both insolent and brutal to- 
wards all men, and is unfitted to occupy posi- 
tions of trust, where honesty, truthfulness, up- 
rightness, discipline and respect towards men 
in office are very essential. D-U-T-Y he knows 
nothing about, and he cares less. He, in his con- 

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ceit, has a right to exercise, not a duty to per- 
form, lie is a cunning, effeminate, brutal de- 
generate. He is a " Don't Care," and it is from 
this undisciplined malformation that we are 
confronted with and are receiving such a des- 
perate "murderous chastisement as a nation." 
Here are the figures of our brutal enormity, 
the result of our murderous "Don't Cares" for 
"railroad accidents" alone for the curernt year 
officially reported by "The Interstate Com- 
merce Commission." They show 11,839 killed 
and 111,016 injured. And as Mr. Julius Krutt- 
schnitt, one of the greatest railroad managers 
in the United States, so wisely says : "It sho -IJ 
be the duty of railroad managers to give these 
figures greater publicity than to minimize or 
conceal them." This worthy declaration from 
a man of such prominence in railroad circles 
shows a depreciation of "cunning" and a de- 
sire for a "Square Deal." He is evidently a 
"Eooscvcltian." But the Keg-meggers' bri- 
gade, consisting of woman suffragists, woman 
teachers, woman lawyers, woman doctors, wo- 
man cuckold makers (legal ones), woman 
preachers, woman politicians; woe, woe, woe, 
with their fictional funk "ad infinitum," sup- 
ported by their victims, the "bearded effemin- 
ates," seem to forget that the "woman's cen- 
tury" (the nineteenth) has closed, and that 
they are merely the fag end, the dying embers 
of that Effeminate Century, struggling to main- 
tain their rottenness against the disastrous ex- 
periences which their prestige has brought up- 
on us, and the "Rooseveltians" of today have 

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declared it " shall cease/ * I use the term 
"Kooseveltian" advisedly, as it comprises 
neither age, sex, religion or political party, but 
it represents a return of " masculine virtue' ' 
stimulated as it is by the example of that re- 
markable man, Theodore Roosevelt. You all 
know the story of " little drops of water, little 
grains of sand," etc., etc. Well, The Patriarch 
has been scattered both far and near during 
the past seven and a half years, and has con- 
tinually preached the doctrine of "man's 
duties and man's prerogatives," and our "little 
drops of water and little grains of sand" have 
not been a barren waste, for I notice with pleas- 
ure that the true philosophy which I have con- 
tinued to preach, against this "effeminate retro- 
gression," is now manifesting itself in many 
directions amongst the most worthy people, 
who ten years ago were silent, except at very 
long intervals. Here is a card mailed to me 
from Chicago: 

SAFETY ON RAILROADS. 

When the people cease to put a premium on in- 
efficiency of labor as they have been doing of late 
years, when honesty of service is regarded as essen- 
tial as honesty in finance, when the man or boy wno 
steals his employer's time is regarded in the same 
way as the one who steals his employer's dollars, 
* * * when the people are willing to pay freight 
and passenger rates sufficient to enable the roads to 
build better roadbeds and more double track end 
have better rolling stock, when the silly talk about 
watered stock is ended and people realize that Eng- 
lish roads are capitalized at an average of nearly 
four times the average in this country, and that the 
average of English freight rates is nearly four times 
our average, then we may being to see better and 
safer railroads and fewer accidents involving fright- 

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ful loss of life. Just now the American people seem 
to prefer cheap roads, cheap rates, and cheap human 
life to higher rates and a greater safety to life and 
limb. — The Manufacturers' Record, Baltimore, July 
30th, 1908. 

The above card from The Manufacturers' 
Record of Baltimore, presents very valuable 
suggestions, but it does not know or else it is 
"afraid to tell the truth." It is an awful truth 
which we present, but our "dreadful experi- 
ences" force us to face the music, as "truth 
will out." We have sown the wind, and we are 
reaping the whirlwind." "What shall we do 
to be saved?" This is the vital question! If 
our "killing, maiming, murdering wickedness," 
and "don't-care-a-damism" was confined 
"principally to the railroads," then the above 
matter might cover the ground and "safety" 
would soon be secured, but my dear Manufac- 
turers' Record, the wicked enormity with which 
we, as a people, are confronted, is in all our in- 
dustrial pursuits, the railroads representing 
only one-fifth of the whole. The Rev. Josiah 
Strong, chairman of the National Committee, 
appointed by congress two years ago to enquire 
into our "murderous career," in his official re- 
port says that the sum total of our "killed and 
wounded" annually is 525,000. Was there 
ever such a frightful slaughter as this in peace- 
ful vocations in the whole world's history? 
Five hundred and twenty-five thousand were 
the figures two years ago. This enormous num- 
ber has increased considerably in the past two 
years. 

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FOLLY OF PROHIBITION. 



What Eminent Men Say — Views of Ministers and the 

Press. 

Thomas Jefferson. 
"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the 
rightful limits of their power; that their true office 
is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and 
duties, and take none of them from us. No man has 
a natural right to commit aggression on the equal 
rights of another; and this is all from which the law 
ought to restrain him; every man is under the natural 
duty of contributing to the necessities of society, 
and this is all the laws ought to enforce on him; and 
no man having a natural right to be the judge be- 
tween himself and another, it is his natural duty to 
submit to the umpirage of an impartial third. When 
the laws have declared and enforced all this, they 
have fulfilled their functions, and the idea is quite un- 
founded that on entering into society we give up 
any natural right." 

Abraham Lincoln. 
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of 
temperance. It is a species of intemperance within 
itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that 
it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, 
and in making crimes out of things that are not 
crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very 
principles on which our government was founded. I 
have always been found laboring to protect the weak- 
er classes from the stronger, and I never can give 
my consent to such a law as you propose to enact. 
Until my tongue shall be silenced in death, I will con- 
tinue to fight for the rights of men." 

Horatio Seymour. 
"I owe it to the subject and to the friends of the 
measure to add the expression of my belief, that in- 
temperance cannot be extirpated by prohibitory laws; 
they are not consistent with sound principles of legis- 
lation. Like decrees to regulate religious creeds, or 
forms of worship, they provoke resistance where they 
are designed to force obedience. The effort to sup- 
press intemperance by unusual and arbitrary mea- 
sures proves that the legislature is attmpeing to do 
that which is not within its province to enact or its 



power to enforce. All experience shows that tem- 
perance, like other virtues, is not produced by law- 
makers, but by the influence of education, morality 
and religion." 

General U. S. Grant. 
"I know from my own experience that when I was 
at West Point the fact that tobacco in every form 
was prohibited, and the mere possession of the weed 
severely punished, made a majority of the cadets, 
myself included, try to acquire the habit of using 
it." 

Samuel J. Tilden. 

"It is no part of the duty of the state to coerce the 
individual man, except so far as his conduct may 
effect others; not remotely and consequentially, but 
by violating rights which legislation can recognize 
and undertake to protect. The opposite principle 
leaves no room for individual reason and conscience, 
trusts nothing to self-culture, and substitutes the 
wisdom of the senate and assembly for the plan of 
moral government ordained by Providence. The wholo 
progress of society consists in learning how to attain 
by the independent action or voluntary association 
of individuals those objects which are at first at- 
tempted only through the agency of government and 
in lessening the sphere of legislation and enlarging 
that of the individual reason and conscience." 

John Quincy Adams. 
"Forget not, I pray j'ou, the right of personal free- 
dom. Self-government is the foundation of all our 
political and social institutions, and it is by self-gov- 
ernment alone that the law of temperance can be en- 
forced. Seek not to enforce upon your brother by 
legislative enactments that virtue which he can pos- 
sess only by the dictates of his own conscience and 
the energy of his own free will." 

Oliver Wendell Holmes and 126 Doctors. 

"We, the undersigned, physicians of Massachusetts, 
while advocating temperance among our people, and 
all appropriate measures to promote it, believe that 
the adoption of the proposed amendment to the Con- 
stitution prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor 
would not accomplish its intended purpose, but would 

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lead to the surreptitious sale of inferior wines and 
liquors." 

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 
HENRY J. BIGELOW, 
And 125 Others. 
Gail Hamilton, 
Speaking of Prohibition in Maine, says in the North 
American Review: 

"The actual result is that liquor is sold to all who 
wish to obtain it in nearly every town in the state. 
Enforcement of the prohibition law seems to have but 
little effect. For the last six years the city of Bangor 
has practically had free rum. In more than one hun- 
dred places liquor is sold, and no attempt is made to 
enforce the law. In Bath, Lewiston, Augusta and oth- 
er cities no real difficulty is experienced in procuring 
liquors. In Portland enforcement of the law has been 
faithfully attempted, yet the liquor traffic flourishes 
for all classes from the highest to the lowest." 
MINISTERS ON PROHIBITION. 
Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon. 

"In the long run the operation, or the inoperative- 
ness of this law" (Main prohibitory law) "is as mis- 
chievous as its pretensions are dishonest, its argu- 
ments fallacious and its title fraudulent. The doom 
of failure is written in every structure of it, con- 
trived, as it is, to work with the utmost friction and 
annoyance, with perversions abhorent to all tradi- 
tions of freedom, for secret information and domicilia- 
tory visitation, and search." 

Rev. Lyman Abbott. 

"This" (prohibition) "was not the method of Jesus. 
He lived in an age of total abstinence societies and 
did not join them. He emphasized the distinction 
between His method and that of John the Baptist, by 
saying that John came neither eating nor drinking; 
the Son of Man came eating and drinking. He con- 
demned drunkenness, but never in a single instance 
lifted up His voice in condemnation of drinking. On 
the contrary, He commenced His public ministry by 
making, as a miracle, wine in considerable quantity, 
and of fine quality, and thio apparently only to 
add to the joyous festivities of a wedding. He ap- 
parently used wine customarily, if not habitually, 
and before all the world; an- He left as a legacy 

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and example for His followers a sacred use of wine in 
the most solemn service of His church." 
Rev. Samuel R. Wilson. 

"Its" (the Prohibition party) "fanatical disregard 
and distortion of facts is shown in the constant as- 
sertion that the liquor trade is the cause of almost all 
the crimes that are committed, and of all the worst 
crimes, and if this trade could be prohibited by law, 
the jails and penitentiaries and almshouses would no 
longer be needed; vice or crime would cease to pol- 
lute the land, and the day ci peace, love and plenty 
forever gild the joyous earth. Could any fancy be 
more wild?" 

Rev. Dr. Frierson. 

To the question, "Have ministers of the Gospel and 
their churches any right to advocate prohibition?" 
the Rev. Dr. D. F. Frierson says, in the Christian Ob- 
server. "When he (the minister) preaches prohibi- 
tion he forsakes his legitimate weapons and ruins his 
own cause. He destroys that perfectly free option to 
which he must make his appeal. He puts himself and 
his ministry in the absurd position of appealing to 
the moral nature at the moment that he is advocating 
compulsion. Why should he persuade at all if he can 
get a law to compel?" 

Cardinal Gibbons. 

These are in the Patriarch frame for October, 1900, 
also the bottom selection from "Cardinal Gibbons." 

"I have never been able to convince myself that 
what we call total abstinence is essential to morality. 
The moderate and occasional use of alcoholic liquors 
is not to be condemned. In countries like France and 
Italy, where the people as a rule drink wine, no se- 
rious harm results from the practice. Even in Rome 
—even at the Vatican — wine is not prohibited, and, 
as we know, the papal doctors themselves prescribe 
it for His Holiness. 

"Then, again, I long since came to understand that, 
putting aside the point of principle, it was virtually 
impossible to enforce a total abstinence law in a large 
community or in a state. Look at Maine, as an in- 
stance, and you will see how true this is. The at' 
tempt to enforce such a law must consequently lead 
to one of the worst things — illegality or hypocrisy; 
possibly to both." 

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Ex-Governor Andrew of Massachusetts. 

"Artificial offences and meddlesome legislation, and 
that felt to be unjust, are, indeed, causes of crime, 
of which the philosophical educator cannot afford to 
be ignorant. Artificial offences put a large class of 
people, anu often that of the least discriminating and 
instructed, into needless antagonism with the law. 
Confounding the moral distinctions on the side of the 
law begets a corresponding confusion in the mind of 
the citizen. If the law treats the sale of a mug of 
beer of sweet cider as of like delinquency with the 
crime of larceny, how long will it take the humble 
and unlearned to conclude that the law is either a 
sham unworthy of veneration, or else lump to the 
converse of the first proposition, and vote larceny of 
an article to be no worse than the selling of the 
beer or the cider? So, therefore, every statute de- 
nouncing the penalties of the criminal law against 
men in violation of the commonly rece.ve^ spusp of 
justice concerning human relations in the civil state, 
becomes, bv reason of that very excess, a generation 
of evil. The laws under which men are punishable 
can have no moral value unless the appeal can also 
be made to the conscience of men." 
Thomas F. Bayard. 

"So far as my experience goes, a well-rearulated 
system of license whereby revenue is larsrely broucrhf 
into the public treasury, counl^d with severe penal- 
ties for illicit sales, has provided the most efficient 
check upon the abnse of the liquor traffic. In many 
resppcts the question is a sumptuary one. the laws 
attempting to establish sumptuary regulations be* 
come inouisitorial and impossible of execution, so 
that in those communities of this country where tbey 
have been enacted they have either aggravated the 
evil where intended to prevent, or have fallen into 
contempt and uselessness, and been repealed." 

Dan Voorhees. 
"The Holy Scripture and the history of the church 
are alike without warrant for the Prohibitionists. 
And looking to the history of civilization from the 
days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the present 
hour, where can a nation be found of strength and 
progress whose people could not be trusted to regu- 
late their personal daily habits for themselves?" 

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Ex-Governor Russell, of Massachusetts. 

"I believe the proposed amendment to the Consti- 
tution is inexpedient, unjust, wrong in principle, and, 
if adopted, will be injurious in its consequences. Pro- 
hibition has been enacted in this state, thoroughly 
tried, and repealed by its sponsors as a confessed 
failure/' 

Roger Q. Mills. 

"I oppose the adoption of prohibition because it 
violates a fundamental principle of free govern- 
ment." 

Senator Coke, of Texas. 

"Prohibitionists assume that the citizen is incapa- 
ble of personal self-government in respect to the use 
of alcohol, and would put a guard over his mouth to 
see that none enters. Their theory is at war with the 
theory of our government. They are sapping and 
mining the very foundations of our free institutions 
in denying the power of the citizen to govern himself 
and his appetite, for upon the existence of this power 
depends the stability of our government." 
Sam. Houston. 

"Before the evils of intemperance can be suppress- 
ed by legislative enactment natural laws must be 
repealed. As long as the soil produces fruit and 
grain ardent spirits will be manufactured and used 
as a beverage. To declare it to be a crime to manu- 
facture and drink wine in moderation would, in ef- 
fect, accuse Christ and the Holy Apostles of sinful 
practice. The hist miracle of our blessed Saviour 
was the manufacture of wine out of water." 
Senator Sherman. 

"The contest for ages has shown that the attempt 
to regulate the appetite of people cannot be success- 
ful. The sooner any community appreciates that the 
better, and no party can carry that load on its shoul- 
ders and succeed very long. We have got to get 
away from such nonsense." 



DRUNKENNESS IN MAINE. 

The following is an excerpt from the Ma- 
chias Union of Aug. 18, 1903. The Machias 
Union is one of the oldest established papers 

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in Maine. This old standard journal used to 
have many subscribers in Port Gamble and Sea- 
beck several years ago, and it has some in Se- 
attle yet: 

Maine may not be the most drunken state in the 
Union, but it is one of the most — that is, if we are 
to believe what is said about it. It appears that 
those simple souls among us who had thought Maine 
to be one of the most sober and decent instead of 
bacchanalian and riotous must awake from their 
dream to the dreadful reality. People have come in 
here to observe the workings of the Maine law and 
have gone away and said things before, but they 
have been discounted as the utterances of prejudiced 
persons or paid emissaries of the liquor interests. 
These statements continue to be repeated, however, 
until the very insistency of them, if nothing more, 
compels attention. 

The latest writers on the subject are two men, 
one Maine born and bred and the other hailing from 
far away. Let us first consider what the stranger 
says. He is George W. Peck of Wilwaukee — not 
George Washington, but George Wilbur — famous 
journalist and humorous writer, whilom mayor of 
the city of beer, whose patron saint is Gambinus, 
and governor of Wisconsin, but known most widely 
perhaps as the brain father of Peck's Bad Boy. Well, 
the author of the Bad Boy has been visiting in Maine, 
a chiel amang us takin' notes to be printed in a 
Milwaukee paper. Some of the things he says about 
the people of Maine, their characteristics and indus- 
trial conditions are neither flattering nor accurate, 
but chiefly interesting is what he says about the 
liquor traffic and the drinking habits. We find his 
statements in a condensed form in the Boston 
Transcript. "Dodging drunken men in Portland be- 
comes monotonous. He found more arrests for 
drunkenness in Bangor — a city the size of Oshkosh — 
than in Milwaukee, with its third of a million of in- 
habitants. It struck Mr. Peck as pitiful to see work- 

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ingmen In the parks about Bangor on Sunday in so 
demoralized a condition from bad whiskey. Rock- 
land he describes as a "pretty tough town," with 
little attention paid to the liquor laws, and with no 
particular tightening up of the facilities for getting 
drinks, except for a day or two at a time, when the 
Sturgis law officers happen to be around. He de- 
scribes the express business which has grown up in 
the state, by which the citizen transmits an order 
by telephone, to be executed in Boston, and within 
fifteen minutes the goods are delivered at his door, 
brought as if by magic from a city four hundred 
miles away. 

Bangor may speak for herself — besotted Bangor, 
with more arrests for drunkenness than the great 
metropolis — but when the ex-mayor of Beertown tens 
us that he found it monotonous "dodging drunken 
men in Portland" it staggers credulity. The other 
who exposes, through a popular magazine, the ex- 
traordinary prevalence of drunkenness in Maine, is 
one to the manner born — Holman S. Day. Here is 
an excerpt: 

Arrests for intoxication the past year in Maine 
cities averaged 25% to the 1,000 of the population; 
in Portland arrests were over 55 to the 1,000, and 
in Bangor 100 to the 1,000. The average for all of 
New England is only 18% to the 1,000. 

In considering the ways for getting liquor, we 
come to the so-called kitchen barrooms — places 
where strong drink is dispensed in the homes, and 
in Lewiston, where they flourish most rankly, there 
are hundreds of such places. There is no regulation 
of them. The veriest toper who has the price can 
buy. The quality of the liquor dispensed can hardly 
be described. Chemists who Lave analyzed some of 
it after its capture by officers say that it is composed 
of alcohol, tobacco steepings and stupefying drugs. 
Much of this stuff is compounded in Maine, and the 
makers of it buy labels, corks and caps in New York 
or Boston, and produce a neat "long necker" of ap- 
parently good whiskey. Many victims of this stuff 

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have died after being arrested for intoxication, and 
men apparently crazed by the compound have hanged 
themselves in their cells. 

I am advancing no arguments from these state- 
ments. I am simply mentioning some facts that may 
be interesting to those unfamiliar with conditions 
in a state that has been practising prohibition — in 
its statutes — for fifty-seven years. Visitors to Maine 
always have occasion to speak of the prevalence of 
drinking on railroad trains in the state. The passed 
bottle is universally seen in smoking cars. In rural 
communities various patent medicines are used as 
intoxicants, and "jaky drunks" are common. The 
last is the Maine name for a Jamaica ginger jag. 
Men will drink down bottle after bottle of that fiery 
stuff. 



OPEN LETTER TO JULIUS KRUTTSCHNITT 



The Shameful Crime of Don't Care. 



To Julius Kruttschnitt: 

Dear Sir: Your extremely interesting cor- 
respondence in one of our national magazines, 
of very recent elate, concerning the "enormous 
loss of life and the maiming of such a frightful 
number of people every year by railroad ac- 
cidents,' ' should attract the attention of all 
thoughtful people. Constant readers of "The 
Patriarch" know quite well that I did not wait 
until a distinguished man in railroad cricles, 
like yourself, came into the public forum before 
writing, time and again, in very severe lan- 
guage, during the past seven years, upon the 
reckless destruction of life in the United States 
of America. Your published statements, my 
dear sir, are corroborated by my public writings 

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ill this paper upon this vital matter: it is the 

public, and not the railroads who are the most 
to blame. The matter of DISCIPLINE, of 
which you justly complaint, covers nearly the 
whole ground ; and you very naturally are very 
desirous of knowing thfe CAUSE of this "un- 
disciplined" condition. " This "undisciplined" 
condition is confined entirely to America; no 
other nation on earth has it. "Don't Care" is 
the National Crime which has brought us to 
this murderous condition. "We have "sown the 
wind, we are reaping the whirlwind." To pre- 
sent these facts is a very unpleasant task for 
me. I sincerely wish that my statements in 
this vital matter were untrue, but they are true, 
very true, ignominously true. We have been 
trying, and are still striving, to live a lie; and 
the "frightful punishment" we are receiving is 
in consequence of our temerity and "undisci- 
plined" condition, warns us in tones of thunder, 
coming from that sacred mystery of the Great 
Unknown, which declares that the first of all 
Gospel is: that a "lie cannot endure forever." 
Race Suicide is the parent of our "murderous 
life in America," for a people who will murder 
their offspring before they are born will be 
indifferent to human life after it is born. This 
is as truthful an indictment as it is shameful. 
Is the "Railroad Company" answerable for 
this? Nay, indeed not. If it was confined to 
the railroads alone we could soon rectify it ; but 
it is national in its "Murderous Career" of 
wickedness. All branches of our industrial life 
bear its proportion of this national shame and 

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wickedness against the human race, against 
high heaven, against God, if you will. The Devil 
is in comamnd of America, and he is shouting 
in order to cover up his wickedness, Prohibi- 
tion! Prohibition!! Prohibition!!! Street cars, 
mines, steamboats (on the inland waters) the 
holocausts of public schools and theatres, hotels, 
lodging houses, public platforms, scaffolding 
upon buildings whilst in construction, shoot- 
ing each other to death in the woods whilst out 
hunting, three thousand injured this year on the 
" Fourth,' ' and a large number killed. All! 
all!! are in the Great American cauldron of 
"murder," stimulated on, and on. to "prema- 
ture death" by the spirit of DON'T CARE! 
and to add to this wicked but exciting condi- 
tion, and add to the "rapidity" of it all, the 
"auto" has appeared upon the scene, and is 
eclipsing all other methods of "destroying hu- 
man" life, in proportion to the number it car- 
ries. We, for many years past, have made 
"prizefighters wear gloves," in order that the 
brutal part of the gladiators shall be softened, 
and then if the notorious couple get into the 
ring for "big pay" and do not "slug each 
other" in the "most brutal manner," to the 
entire satisfaction of the "blood-thirsty au- 
dience," the Chief of Police steps in and in- 
forms the "sluggers that they must slug," or 
he will stop the fake. In the desire for "human 
blood" we are following closely upon the heels 
of the Romans in their degeneracy." When 
they were so satiated with wholesome sports as 
chariot racing, foot-racing, jumping, etc., etc., 

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they hungered for greater excitement; so one 
gladiator was pitted against the other, and they 
fought each other with short swords, and it 
was left to the "turning up or down of wo- 
men's thumbs to determine whether the van- 
quished gladiator should receive the death 
thrust or not;" they were also "race suiciders" 
at this period, for as St. Paul said to them: 
"The men do not after their kind, nor the wo- 
men after their kind," and they threw him into 
a dungeon to perish for having the temerity to 
tell them the truth. * * * In regard to the 
"undisciplined" condition of which "Julius 
Kruttsehnitt" complains and wants to know the 
Cause: This "undisciplined" condition is trace- 
able to the public schools. Women are in charge 
of them, and women cannot mold the character 
of manly men; nor can she "discipline robust 
boys." So, having been too long at school, un- 
der the gentle effeminate treatment of women, 
he, when he finds himself subject to the author- 
ity of a iqan, it becomes very distasteful to him, 
and he is more ready with his gab to argue the 
point with his employer than he is to obey or- 
ders. "Discipline" is irksome to him, for the 
reason that he was never subject to it, espe- 
cially at the hands of a man. In this "undisci- 
plined" condition the "loafers' brigade" be- 
comes more attractive to him than honest in- 
dustry, and as his gab has been well developed 
by being kept too long at school, when he 
should have been at work, he becomes active 
with his gab, and is an ideal socialist, anarchist, 
prohibitionist or woman suffragist. As the 

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whole country is overstocked with "educated 
fools," trying to live by their wit, there is no 
field for him; work steadily, he will not; he has 
never been trained to it; so he turns card sharp, 
burglar, train robber, sneak thief, etc., etc., 
and eventually lands in the penitentiary, a vic- 
tim of "too much education" under woman's 
tuition. Well " disciplined' ' men with valorous 
character is of more importance to a nation than 
abnormal education. We have normal schools, 
conducted by women for the purpose of creat- 
ing abnormalities. — The Patriarch, July 11th, 
1908. 



"WELFARE WORK" 

on 



AMERICAN RAILROADS. 
The Y. M. C. A. vs. Saloons. 

Last July we received a booklet issued by 
Appleton's Magazine entitled "The Public's 
Responsibility for Railway Accidents," by Ju- 
lius Kruttschnitt. Last week we received an- 
other booklet issued by the Review of Reviews, 
October number, entitled "Welfare Work on 
American Railroads," by William Merkel. All 
thoughtful people should read both of these 
productions carefully. 

Now, Julius Kruttschnitt is a distinguished 
railroad official, being the director of mainten- 
ance and operation of the Union Pacific System 
arid the Southern Pacific Railway Company, 
this being the case, he knows what he is talking 
about when presenting his personal knowledge 
and experience for public consideration. Thua 

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he is entitled to greater confidence when he pre- 
sents his personal knowledge than the ordinary 
observer, who is often prompted by ulterior 
motives when discussing important events of 
great consequence to the public. Our readers 
will remember an article in "The Patriarch' ' 
of July 11, 1908, being an open letter to Julius 
Kruttschnitt, written and published in connec- 
tion with the able article of this distinguished 
railway official. This gentleman presents eight 
causes of accidents, and he does not connect a 
single one of them with drunken habits or sa- 
loon influence. If the railway accidents were 
due in the least degree to the drink habit he 
would surely have said so, but here is what he 
does say: 

"The cause lies in the fact, which cannot be de- 
nied, that the efficiency of railroad employes hao de- 
teriorated in the past few years. And this deteriora- 
tion cannot be compensated. A railroad is much 
more dependent upon its human than upon its mate- 
rial equipment for safe and efficient operation. No 
matter how generously every material equipment is 
provided, how lavishly capital is expended for im- 
provement of roadbed, additional side tracks, termi- 
nals, safety devices, and the like, the otulay is use- 
less unless the road is efficiently manned. It is there- 
fore altogether regrettable that the attitude of our 
employes has been changed. That it has been changed 
from loyalty and consideration to indifference if not 
to disloyalty, no observer will deny." 

This is a very serious and no doubt a truth- 
ful indictment. Now comes William Menkel, a 
politician, who can with his clever sophistry 
lie every time he tells the truth, with some neg- 
ative inuendoes and much positive truth, in his 
very able and attractive article in the October 

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number of the Review of Reviews, entitled 
"Welfare Work on American Railroads.' ' In 
this interesting and instructive article he points 
out the liberality of the railroad company to- 
ward their employes, and the large amount of 
money spent by them for the entertainment 
and instruction of their employes when off duty. 
This liberality and its commendable aims 
should challenge the admiration of all people 
who can appreciate worthy efforts. But, alas 
for the vain efforts when actual experience re- 
bukes the best of efforts. Following are a few 
clippings from the article of William Menkel: 

The Y. M. 0, A.'s Part in the Work. 

To the Young Men's Christian Association belongs 
the bulk of the credit for pioneering efforts in behalf 
of railroad employes. Some of the roads run their 
own welfare institutions, but by far the greater part 
of this work is conducted by the railroad department 
of the Y. M. C. A. The first railroad branch of the 
association was established at Cleveland in 1S72. 
Five years later the International Committee of the 
Y. M. C. A. took charge of the work and has given 
it careful supervision ever since. 

• •••••• 

While the smaller Y. M. C. A. buildings contain 
only the essential equipment for rest, refreshment 
and recreation, the larger establishments boast all 
the luxurious features of the big city clubhouses, 
with their libraries of many thousands of volumes, 
swimming pools, bowling alleys, and athletic grounds. 
Of course, all these fine privileges are not to be 
exactly without money and without price. The men 
pay a membership fee ranging from $3 to $5 a year, 
which includes all the general privileges of the build- 
ings, such as the use of the library, reading room 
and writing room, while for meals, beds and baths 
there is a slight charge, barely covering the cost. 
The buildings are open day and night, and meals 
and baths can be had at all hours. 

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In the United States and Canada there are now 
174 of these railroad Y. M. C. A.'s, with a member- 
ship of 93,000, and buildings having an aggregate 
value of $3,569,200. These figures are constantly 
increasing. 

• •••••• 

In competition with the railway clubs, the saloon, 
which was formerly the only place the men had to 
go, has proved a failure, the best testimony to this 
effect being found in the consistent opposition of sa- 
loonkeepers wherever clubs are located. There is 
the same freedom in the railway club that the men 
formerly found in the saloon — and a great deal more 
comfort. No ironclad rules are made. The men 
meet on an equal footing. 

• •••••• 

An interesting example is the "Railroad High 
School." 

A more worthy effort was never planned or 
carried out than that of the "Y. M. C. A. (with 
the assistance of the railroad companies) vs. the 
Saloon'' on American Railroads, for the pur- 
pose of promoting the welfare of the employes 
and the enhancement of the public service at 
the same time. But what is the result of all 
this worthy effort but disappointment, chagrin, 
disaster ? We question very much if the whole 
world's history presents such an object lesson 
as this, where theory supported by worthy peo- 
has been routed by actual practice. Please ob- 
serve that the Y. M. 0. A. vs. the Saloon move- 
ment began in 1872 in Cleveland, until now it 
has reached the number of 174 Y. M. C. A. es- 
tablishments on American railroads, and sa- 
loons have been driven off altogether in many 
places, and they have been driven into the back- 
ground in nearly all other places, and yet our 
murderous career on the railroads have in- 



creased year after year, keeping pace with the 
increase of Y. M. C. A.'s, and as Julius Krutt- 
schnitt says in the above clipping from his val- 
uable article, "the efficiency of railroad em- 
ployes has deteriorated in the past few years." 
This is a humiliating experience, and is dis- 
appointing in the extreme. He who can fathom 
this riddle of sobriety and irresponsibility and 
succeed in doing something effective for the sav- 
ing of human life on American railroads will 
be the greatest public servant that has ever 
yet appeared in all our history. To think that 
we should murder tens of thousands annually, 
and maim hundreds of thousands in the same 
length of time, which does not happen in any 
other country on earth, in spite of the best ef- 
forts to save human life, looks like a national 
chastisement from the Omnipotent God. "What 
shall we do to be saved?" 

It is quite evident that the efforts of the Y. 
M. C. A. has been worse than useless. I do not 
say this in a spirit of disparagement to the 
worthy efforts that have been made by them. 
I am merely giving my verdict according to the 
evidence. With our rash speculation we are 
teaching the world more of what to avoid than 
of what to adopt. There is one extremely in- 
teresting fact which has developed in America 
during the past half a century, and has become 
very apparent to me (as we have it now in all 
its fierceness) in the last quarter of a century. 
That an abnormal stimulation of the mind dulls 
the sensitiveness, or I might say the activity, of 
the heart, and when the heart becomes deadened 
then "moral obligations" will be indifferently 

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performed. Thus we see that that branch of 
activity (the intellectual) of the Y. M- C. A. 
has been attended with disaster to the public 
service on the railroads, as it stimulates the 
mind and leaves the heart as dormant as the 
devil could wish it, so we see that the Y. M. 
C. A. "drunkards," who are "drunk but not 
with wine/' have been closely associated with 
more murder upon the railroads during the 
worthy efforts of the Y. M. C. A. than they 
were when the railroad employes got physically 
drunk upon "bad wisky" at the saloons. To 
simple minds that have been burdened with 
artificiality from the high schools this assertion, 
supported as it is by the most positive evi- 
dence, will be repudiated with all the vehemence 
of a self-assertive prohibitionist. The prohibi- 
tionist cares nothing about evidence. His ideas 
of virtue are speculative theories, supported by 
sanctimoniousness and political petticoats. He 
is a true exemplification of the following tru- 
ism: 

"Convince a man against his will, 
He's of the same opinion still.- 
When a man gets drunk upon bad whisky 
(such as flows freely in all prohibition districts) 
he gets sick. This is his punishment, and it 
happens at irregular intervals only. But he 
whose mind is burdened beyond his natural ca- 
capacity to bear at the high school of the Y. 
M. C. A. is constantly encouraged to carry a 
"heavy load," such as the professor can carry 
easily, until he gets so mentally drunk that he 
is morally irresponsible. This article is written 



by the editor of this paper, and is published 
for the purpose of arresting the attention of 
thoughtful people with warm hearts and moral 
convictions. Educated fools will not compre- 
hend it, as it is entirely out of the rut of popular 
belief and popular defects. "Though thou 
shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat 
with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness de- 
part from him." He with no warmth of heart 
"don't care," and we are having our hellish ex- 
perience of slaughter upon railroads from the 
degenerate spirit of "don't care," which is go- 
ing hand in hand with coercion-prohibition- 
damnation, being a philosophy from hell, mis- 
taken by fools for wisdom and morality. That 
mandate of the railroad company forbidding 
their employes "to drink on or off duty" rep- 
resents the insolence of an "imperious task- 
master," and its observance by the employes 
represents degradation, subserviency, humilia- 
tion, subjugation. No part of Europe would 
tolerate for a moment such imposition. The 
Emperor of Eussia would never dare to issue 
such an infamous mandate, and if he did a gen- 
eral uprising would take place. The former 
boast of America was character. What has be- 
come of it? The 174 Y. M. C. A. resorts on 
American railroads are replete with education- 
al inducements, and all kinds of entertainments 
prevail. The mind is continually exercised, but 
the character is subordinated. It is dormant. 
Character is worth more to a nation than edu- 
cation. There is not a self-respecting Roose- 
veitian in all that large army of railroad em* 

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ployes who submit to dictation concerning their 
private life. If this tyrannical despotism add- 
ed to the efficiency of the public service it might 
be tolerated, or even encouraged as a policy, 
but the experience of 36 years prove that it does 
not ; in fact, it is going hand in hand with ineffi- 
ciency. Mr. Julius Kruttsnitt, one of the great- 
est of railroad officials, in his article has so de- 
clared. There is one very important lesson pre- 
sented here. It is this : The freest man is the 
BEST SERVANT!! 



HEARST. 

"A tree is known by its fruit.' ' 
"By your works ye shall be judged." 
William Randolph Hearst, judged by his 
works, has been a friend of the people. lie is 
and has always been democratic. Being a man 
of great inherited wealth — not wealth accumu- 
lated by himself from exploiting the people — 
he seems to consider himself a trustee of this 
wealth for the people. 

He supports a law bureau to defend and 
protect the people. Against the ice trust, the 
gas trust, the coal trust and the Rampo steal 
the common people were powerless. They can- 
not as individuals fight these oppressive and 
robbing combines. Hearst with his money and 
the power of his papers comes to the assist- 
ance of the people. He employs able and high- 
priced lawyers and puts up the costs for a hard 
legal battle with these thieves. He succeeds 
and the poor people do not have to freeze in 
winter, nor perish from heat in the summer. 

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His victories over the ice, coal and gas com- 
binations are only some of his triumphs in the 
interests of the common people. 

For years he has through his powerful pa- 
pers contended for better economic conditions 
—has fought against "the system' ' and our 
present irrational money-breeding legalized 
economic conditions — economic conditions that 
are making the rich richer and the poor poorer, 
and drawing our entire population into a class 
of the vicious and vulgar and irresponsible 
rich, and a class of the miserably poor — the rich 
as a class and the people of the abyss. 

If these efforts bring him honorable notoriety 
and fame, he is entitled to it. This is certainly 
much nobler than to seek office by alliance 
with "the system" to get funds for corruption 
of the ballot. 

To be Mayor, Governor and President is a 
laudable ambition. Every man has a right to 
aspire to leadership and office, and has the 
right to advertise and popularize himself by 
doing good and effectively serving the people 
whose support he wants. 

Mr. Hearst has shown his political creed by 
his works, while other aspirants attempt to 
proclaim their creed by mouth. Of course the 
subsidized press of "the system" thinks this 
awful. "The system's" papers think he ought 
not to do it — that he is a traitor to his class — 
that he is educating the people and may work 
a change in economic conditions. The people 
may cease to submit humbly and peaceably to 
legalized robbery. 

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Mr, Hearst in an open field fight— the may- 
oralty election— conquered Tammany so com- 
pletely that Tammany almost en masse came 
over and have joined the forces of their con- 
queror. This may be strategy on the part of 
Tammany. The Tammanyites may hope to dis- 
integrate and destroy the army they have for 
the time joined. But General Hearst has al- 
ready shown that he is in command and Gen- 
eral Murphy must obey orders or march out. 

All honor to Hearst's method of advertising, 
and success to him in his honorable ambition 
and laudable aspirations. 

e. c. Mcdowell. 

— ratriarch, Oct. 20, 1906. 

THE TWELVE APOSTLES OF SEATTLE. 
"Male and Female Created He Them." 

WREATHS FOR THESE 
W. P. Trimble, 2,334. John Cort, 1,726. 

E. C. Macy, 2,202. Wm. Sutherland, 1,674. 

Hi Gill, 2,157. Mrs. M. B. Baxter, 1,580. 

A. L. Cohen, 1,911. John L. Wilson, 1,356. 

Frank McDermott, 1,898. W. H. Moore, 1,137. 
C. D. Hillman, 1,792. James P. Agnew, 908. 

The above are the winners in the Star's "Wreaths 
for the Living" contest, which closed at noon today. 

All morning the ballots piled into the Star office. 
Messengers and friends of candidates kept up a 
steady stream with their bundles of ballots. 

W. P. Trimble went up to the top with a whoop, 
but at his heels was E. C. Macy, of the postoffice. 
The ballots came in in all shapes, neatly done up 
in bundles of a hundred, and quite the reverse in 
bundles thrown together in any old way. 

The labor of counting the ballots was more than 
anticipated, but they were finally all tallied. 

One envelope with 21 ballots, with no name, either 
of a candidate or the sender, was received. 

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On Monday, November 9, the Star will begin the 
publication of the obituaries of the successful candi- 
dates, one a day, in the order in which they appear 
above. 

The following are the votes received by the other 
contestants, who are not included in the twelve: 

Dr. M. A. Matthews, 906; Edward Clay son, Sr., 879; 
Jacob Furth, 617; John H. Miller, 582; John Slattery, 
312. 

None of the other candidates received over 100 
votes. — Seattle Star. 

We buy a copy of The Star on the streets 
nearly every day, read the news rapidly and the 
editorial also — with the same haste. That's all. 
Strange as it may appear, that the above an- 
nouncement: "Wreaths for the Living," had 
run eight days before I saw it, and I should not 
have seen it then, only an acquaintance called 
my attention to it. The above "Twelve Apos- 
tles" are fairly representative of "Seattle's 
Experts," who are not entirely exempt (some 
of them) from "ballot-box stuffing." About 
the only three philosophers amongst the twelve 
are "High" Gill, John L. Wilson, "Billy Suth- 
erland." As "Edward Clayson, Sr." received 
879 votes (not a single one of whom are known 
to him) he barely escaped the ordeal of being 
one of the twelve "Questionables," and Dr. 
Matthews "escaped by the skin of his teeth," 
as three more votes would have made him one 
of the "elite." He now is with his peers — the 
five notables — instead of being one of "The 
Twelve Apostles." There are not less than 
"fifty editors" in Seattle, when we include the 
whole bunch, and Edward Clayson, Sr., editor 
of "The Patriarch," is the only one (John L. 
Wilson, one of the ewelve, is not editor of the 

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P.-L, but the he is the owner) of them all that 
was brought forth from his "Tub of Diogenes' ' 
and placed in the forum amidst the celebrated, 
and notorious, the famous, and the infamous, 
the degenerate, and the regenerate, the politi- 
cians, and the statesmen, the gentle and the 
brutal, the modest and the pompous, the true 
and the false, the noble and the ignoble, the 
honest and the dishonest, the "Don't Cares" 
and the "Do Cares. " The Kernel of the Seattle 
Daily Crimes ' ' also ran. He got 17 votes. These 
17 votes were, no doubt, from his great admir- 
ers — the quack doctors, and the cuckold mak- 
ers. "The contestants," says The Star. We 
object! There were "contestants," without a 
doubt, but a man who is utterly ignorant of 
anything that is going on, cannot be considered 
as a "contestant" in that which he knows noth- 
ing about. It is anything but gratifying to be 
considered as being "in a race" with the "mere 
rich" man for public honors. "Trimble," for 
instance ; the purveyor of petticoats and cock-a- 
doodle trinkets, or "Illman," the real estate 
shark, or "Queen Bee Baxter," the Semiramis 
of Seatitle, or "Billy the Blessed," he with a 
"record." Nay, nay! They are not in my 
class. I cannot get down to their level, and 
they cannot raise to mine. Cumtux? 



CUCKOLDRY AND PREACHERS. 

Churchanity vs. Christianity. 
RICHMOND HILL, Sept. 9.— The marriage of Rev. 
Dr. William H. Lawrence, pastor of Trinity Metho- 
dist church of this place, to a woman who had pre- 
viously been divorced was sustained by the official 

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board of Trinity church in resolutions adopted. It 
was announced officially that after investigation the 
board had found that Mrs. Lawrence had divorced 
her former husband before Rev. Dr. Lawrence ever 
paid court to her. The resolution adopted by the 
board extended churchly love and fellowship to the 
pastor and his wife, exonerated each from any blame 
and expressed unshaken confidence in the pastor. 

There they stand, in all their nakedness: The 
Methodist church as usual — the "fig leaf" is 
removed, without qualms of conscience. 
"When nations are to perish in their sins, 
'Tis in the church the leprosy begins.' ' 

Now let "cuckold-makers" rejoice and flock 
to the Methodist church for absolution. They 
can now "lay the flattering unction to their 
souls" that they are exemplary Christians ac- 
cording to the canons of the Methodist church. 
Lawyeress Brown should join the Methodist 
church in the interest of cuckoldry and re- 
ligion. 



Miss Petticoats is the title of a new drama 
which is being extensively advertised at pres- 
ent. Now, we would like to suggest a title for 
an appropriate drama of today — "Miss Breech- 
es." "Mr. Petticoat" would be a very appro- 
priate title for the bearded effeminates who are 
clamoring for women to bear the burdens of 
government for which the bearded effeminate 
is incapable. Let us have "Mr. Petticoat" by 
'all means. 



Since Robley ±J. Evans retired from the Navy pro- 
fanity has fallen off in that branch of Uncle Sam's 
service nearly fifty per cent.— San Jose Times. 

And masculine virtue has gone with it. 

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GAMBLERS' PHILANTHROPY 

vs. 

CHURCH TEMERITY. 

(" Special Privileges to None.") 
It appears that a clause in our "Anti-Gam- 
bling Law" was inserted for the "benefit of 
the Churches." Such being the case we re- 
publish the following in order to present to the 
public what some Churches do in the interest 
of morality. They can learn lessons in common 
decency from the gamblers in this. respect: 
From a Distinguished Author. 

"The Epworth Leaguers of Suffern, N. Y., have 
been conducting a very successful leg-show in the 
name of the Lord. The Devil's monopoly of the 
opera-bouffe is broken — sawdust is henceforth to be 
a means of saving grace, a pair of pink tights hath 
become our new Ark of the Covenant. It appears 
from a dispatch to the St. Louis Republic, that the 
salary of the local Methodist minister was sadly in 
arrears and the earnest efforts of the board of 
stewards failed to bring the promises of the godly 
to par. Then the young ladies of the League took 
the matter in hand and raised the money with a rush 
by the simple expedient of lifting their petticoats 
and displaying their limbs. They evidently consid- 
ered it a case in which the end justified the means. 
According to the dispatch, a curtain was stretched 
across the stage, behind which the young ladies 
stood, attired in high-water skirts. The drop was 
lifted until the audience was given a good view of 
the symposium of legs, wnich an auctioneer sold to 
the highest bidder the privilege of escorting to sup- 
per the proprietress of each pair of underpinning. 
When the bidding lagged the curtain was lifted a 
little higher, thereby enhancing the enthusiasm of 
the audience. What was the limit of the game- 
where the line of vision was drawn — we cannot 
gather from the dispatch; but it assures us that "the 
bidding grew highly spirited as the curtain rose a 
trifle at a time." The language of the auctioneer 
is not reported, but we may fairly infer that he dis- 
coursed substantially as follows: 

"Now, young gents, how much am I offered for 
the society of this lovely pair of limbs? A foot like 

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Trilby's, the proudly arched instep which proclaims 
a high-stepper and rapid goer, ankles that would 
make Psyche stay in out of the wind, and calves 
like rollicking Durham two-year-olds. Plhidias nor 
Praxiteles had such a model as he got in his graft 
on the Carian marble. How much for the blessed 
privilege of cantering her out to the banquet board, 
the envy of all your fellows, the observed of all ob- 
servers? Two dol — what! Do me ears deceive me? 
O chivalry, where is thy blush? O manhood, where 
thy shame! The stage manager will lift the cur- 
tain another inch while the choir chants a verse 
from the Song of Solomon. Three dollars I'm bid 
for this empress of physical perfection — and our be- 
loved pastor's salary unpaid! Three'n a quarter — 
n'alf! Now you talk. Come again! Observe the 
symphony of her garters, and come to Jesus. Think 
of the holy cause in whic*h you're blowing yourself. 
'N'alf 'n'alf, three fifty, make it four! Silk stockings, 
too, and going at three 'n'alf, last call, and sold to 
our dear brother in Christ, Deacon Two Good, who 
will please claim his lovely prize, steer her against 
the lone oyster in the soup and fill her with hot 
house strawberries at a dollar a box." 

We are told that the sale was "a great success." 
Of course it was. Few of the young Endeavorers 
had seen what Parkhurst saw or felt what Park- 
hurst felt. The sight of well-filled stockings and 
embroidered garters gave 'em a new sensation — 
made 'em sorry for the poor pastor and determined 
to give their all to the church. I'm growing a trifle 
grizzly, but had I been present I would have hypothe- 
cated my umbrella rather than that a young lady 
whose "limbs are like melodies," should miss her 
supper. The dispatch states that at the close of the 
evening the Endeavorers, male and female, voted 
that they'd had a bang up good time. If they didn't 
it was certainly not the fault of the young ladies. 
Of course they had a good time. With religious en- 
thusiasm and pie on a thousand plates, legs and 
red lights all served up in one grand ollapodrida 
of Christian Endeavor piety, the veriest pessimist 
would find life well worth the living. Suffern, New 
York! Suffering Jehosaphat! Why didn't they send 
for the "Apostle" and let him get in the push? I 
would have fairly gloried in helping that distressed 
minister out of the hole. I once crossed the state 
of Missouri to attend a sale of sacred kisses to help 
"capture the world for Christ." Three Dakota wid- 
ows, as many sure-enough relicts and a dozen corn- 
fed country maids with breath as sweet as that of 

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a nursing calf, were lined up inside the sacred edi- 
fice, waiting for the fray. I reached St. Peter ahead 
of all competitors — I mean the old fellow who kept 
the keys of this terrestial Paradise and corralled the 
cash. By paying 25 cents you secured a permit to 
kiss a maid, 35 cents entitled you to brush the honey 
dew from the rich red lips of a divorcee while the 
brand of yum-yum ladled out by the sure-enough 
widows cost half-a-dollar a dose— all for Christ. I 
counted the kisses and bought a stack of whites, 
reds and blues that would enable me to play the 
game to the limit, and proceeded to shuffle the cards. 
The first one on the program was a widow who 
seemed to have been long waiting for something of 
the kind to happen. She came to the scratch with 
the esprit of the Old Guard chiseling desolation into 
the Dutch. She certainly served the Lord with all 
her heart and with all her soul. She said I was 
bashful because I didn't kiss her back. But there 
was no occasion for it — she had her face with her. 
By the time I had played in my stack of chips — 
had passed from Alpha to Omega — I felt like a 
drunken bumblebee in a field of red hollyhocks. I 
was convinced that religion is a good thing and de- 
cided to become a minister and enjoy its sweet con- 
solation all the time. I went broke in the sacred 
cause and hypothecated my silver watch for more 
funds with which to carry on the holy crusade against 
the world, the flesh and the devil. I again started 
on the circuit, but the bloom had been brushed off 
the peach. I tasted everything, from stale beer and 
plug tobacco to moustache wax and bad cigars. It 
was like rooting for sweetness in the garbage barrel. 
I cashed in my chips at half price and spent the 
evening at a stag party trying to get the taste out 
of my mouth. The plan of salvation seemed to have 
been tampered with. I remembered that St. Paul 
commands Christians to greet each other with a 
kiss, and decided to take my hell hereafter. 

I supposed that "holy zeal" had reached its limits 
when the church began to sell sanctified kisses; but 
it seems that I was mistaken. Piety, it appears, is 
progressive. It began with petty gambling — with 
ring-cakes and grab-bags — has finally reached the 
leg-show level and is still rolling on. What next? 
I can think of nothing but chuck-a-luck with loaded 
dice, or the dancing of the can-can in pur is natural i- 
bus. Is our religion returning to those old pagan 
revels wherein subter-brutishness was considered 
the noblest worship of the Deity? to the Bacchic 
orgies, in which impediments were cast aside and 

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law supplanted by license? Is the Jehovah of the 
Jews to be degraded into another Dionysus, and a 
phallic emblem submitted for the cross? The kiss- 
ing match and leg show are certainly long strides 
backward toward that crass paganism wherein re- 
ligion was little more than foolish ceremony and 
unbridled libidinosity. The Christian Endeavorers 
of Suffern, New York, should either take a carbolic 
acid bath and repent them in sackcloth and ashes, 
or relinquish their high pretensions and open a 
variety dive. Even at the French Vaudeville girls 
are not put up at auction. They may be displayed 
on the stage for the purpose of tempting young men 
to "take them to supper," but they are permitted to 
choose their own companions. — Patriarch, August 31, 
1907. 



BRYAN VS. HEARST. 

In the Court of Public Opinion. 

ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 12.— William R. Hearst, 
when shown William J. Bryan's denial of Hearst's 
statement that Bryan four months ago proposed to 
support Hearst four years hence in return for 
Hearst's support in this campaign, made the follow- 
ing statement: 

"I don't see why Bryan is always proposing poli- 
cies that he has to recant, saying things that he has 
to retract and doing things that he has to deny. 
When Bryan came to New York some four months 
ago I did not call on him, as I had nothing to see 
him about. He did call on me, as he apparently had 
something to see me about. I kept his visit secret, 
but Chanler, in his suit against me, stated in his 
affidavit that he had seen Bryan at my house, and so 
the visit was inadvertently made public. That visit 
was without result, as I purposely avoided politics. 
Shortly afterward I received an invitation from a 
friend of mine to dinner. When I went to the dinner 
I found Bryan. After the dinner Bryan stepped aside 
with me in the hall and said exactly what I said 
he did. I wish he had not said it. I was surprised 
and humiliated by the proposition. It showed that 
Bryan had no appreciation or conception of the work 

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I had done for him or of the reason I had worked 
so hard and made so many sacrifices in the cause. 
It showed that he considered me merely a traitor 
working for some personal advantage or promotion 
in politics. I left the house humiliated, as I say, but 
more than ever opposed to Bryan, more than ever 
convinced that I was right in opposing him." 

The present dispute between Hearst and Bryan was 
occasioned by a remark made by the New York editor 
in a speech in Atlanta last night. Hearst's remark 
was: "Bryan alleges that I am angry with him be- 
cause he did not support me for the presidency at 
St. Louis four years ago. That is not true. If Bryan 
thought I was not the most available candidate it was 
his duty to oppose me. But if Bryan thought I was 
not the proper candidate he should not have ap- 
proached me in New York four months ago with a 
proposition to support me in the next convention if 
I would support him in this campaign." Bryan when 
asked today at Cumberland, Md., about Hearst's re- 
mark answered: "The statement of Hearst is abso- 
lutely false in every particular. I met him at his 
house and also at the house of Dr. John Cox some 
time last fall or winter, but at neither place nor any- 
where else was there any conversation that could 
by any possibility be distorted into such a propo- 
sition." 

Now I ask in all sincerity that my readers 
will read the above very carefully, and then 
think it over thoroughly, and then consider if 
you were on a jury which one of these two, 
Hearst or Bryan, is the liar? Here is direct 
evidence given by Hearst and supported by the 
strongest ''circumstantial evidence.' ' There is 
also direct evidence from Bryan against 
Hearst, "unsupported by circumstantial evi- 
dence." Please observe the situation intelli- 
gently. The "circumstantial evidence" is very 

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strong in support of Hearst. The " circumstan- 
tial evidence" of Mr. Hearst has a very truth- 
ful, straightforward significance. Truly does 
Mr. Hearst say that "he did not seek Mr. Bry- 
an, but Mr. Bryan sought him," and Mr. Hearst 
"kept Mr. Bryan's visit to him a secret," and 
it was only through a "suit in court by Chan- 
ler" that Bryan's visit to Hearst was made 
public. And again Mr. Hearst was "invited 
to dinner by a friend," who was also a friend 
of Bryan. It is evident that the friend pur- 
posely invited Hearst to this dinner in order 
that Bryan should meet him in "any manner 
he saw fit," secret or otherwise. The public 
man should be indicted in the public press for 
any "one instance of duplicity," but Mr. B ryan 
has been a continuous falsifier for several years. 
Tom Watson, the truth seeker, the truth finder 
and truth promulgator, has indicted W. J. 
Bryan of being a falsifier and a wretched de- 
ceiver for years, and who, knowing the two 
men, would not believe the bare word of ' ' Tom 
Watson" sooner than the oath of W. J. Bryan? 
This "experience" of Mr. Hearst with W. J. 
Bryan merely corroborates the ' ' experiences ' ' 
of other prominent and responsible men with 
the "Great National Demagogue of Nebraska." 
Here is another one confirming the shameful 
duplicity of Mr. Bryan : 



Three popular places in Seattle — Dr. Mat- 
thews' church, the Bismarck, and the Tann- 
aeuser Cafes. Cumtux? 

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"BULL DURHAM" WITH A MORAL. 

(Pretentious Prudery.) 

Bull Durham is a choice tobacco as Durham is 
choice stock, and Durham is a choice butter. 

The manufacturers of Bull Durham, in order to 
attract attention to their famous brand of tobacco 
employed a very noted artist to paint a "Durham 
Bull,' 5 in all his "natural beauty." There he stands! 
A physical production of great beauty, presented by 
the skill of the artist with every appearance of 
"Rooseveltian virility," with all his masculine parts 
complete, noble in peace, fierce in war. But a 
"race suicider," a he prude, thought he saw an op- 
portunity to display his effeminate pretense to mod- 
esty and exquisite "culcha" by making complaint 
(on the quiet) against this work of art, which or- 
namented the conspicuous places in this city, so 
some one went quietly to work and applied the "fig 
leaf in order to cover the bull's nakedness, thus 
mutilating the picture. Suppose that it had been 
Cow Durham instead of Bull Durham and the artist 
had painted her, as in fly time, with her tail on 
end, exposing her female form; then what? Would 
they tie a grind-stone to her tail in order to make 
her behave? 

Did these impious mockers ever attend an agri- 
cultural fair and witness the bulls, boars, stallions, 
cocks, dogs and rams to be found there for exhibit 
and admiration? When the photographer takes the 
pictures of these choice selections of Nnature's handi- 
work, and man's improvement, and places them be- 
fore the public in large papers of general circula- 
tion, does he "mutilate" the picture by eradicating 
any portion of their anatomy? 

It is more than likely that these great "moral 
complainants" of Seattle have been educated in that 
most wretched standard of all wickedness— "race 
suicide" — by reading "Queen-Bee Baxter's articles 
written in support of the infamous "Hallet Bill" 
which was introduced in our state legislature four 
years ago for the purpose of "casterating masculine 
virility." I wonder if these contemptible, hypocrit- 
ical pretenders to modesty and morality, ever eat 
butter? Do they not know that the cow might eat 
her fill daily of choice clover and sweet grass, but 
that sweet butter could never be produced with- 
out the bull performing his male functions? Do 
these city jades (of both sexes) presume for a 
moment to say that they set the "moral pace" for 
the tens of thousands of farmers' wives, and daugh- 

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ters to emulate? This "Bull Durham" mockery of 
city jades can be jerred at, and laughed to scorn 
by all farmers' wives and daughters, with the great- 
est propriety. Those papers which set up a roar a 
few weeks ago in this city about the "Durham Bull" 
would, if the "Bull Durham Tobacco Co." had pat- 
ronized them instead of putting up their own pic- 
tures, have presented the Bull in the most conspicu- 
ous manner in their paper with his horns, his tail, 
his hoofs, his ears and his "male adornments com- 
plete," and there would never have been a squeal, 
and what an admirable picture it would have been 
in comparison to the detestible quack doctor who 
appears in these papers continually; the one is a 
beautiful brute, and the other is a brutal human. 
Cum tux? 

An honored member of our present legislature has 
introduced a "bill" for the purpose of suppressing 
the quack doctor. He is right, but no member of 
the legislature has had the immoral temerity to 
introduce a bill for the purpose of "mutilating a 
bull" before he is permitted to be placed on exhibi- 
tion at a "stock show" in this state, in order to com- 
ply with base minds and corrupted morals cf the 
"effeminate" order. Now take your medicine! and 
hide your hypocracy from the face of virtuous peo- 
ple, who appreciate both natural beauty and "Roose- 
veltian virility" of the "moral and strenuous" type. 



We ask in all sincerity if a few good brew- 
eries and distilleries would not be a godsend to 
the people of Maine, both materially, morally 
and physically? Where hypocrisy reigns su- 
preme the people will be punished. This is evi- 
dent from experience. Hypocrisy usurps the 
functions of morality in Maine, and the whole 
commonwealth suffers in consequence. There 
are quite a number of Seattle's best citizens 
who came here from Maine, and they will con- 
firm this statement. Shall we permit this pro- 
hibition blast to establish itself in the State of 
Washington ? 

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PERSONAL LIBERTY LEAGUE. 



DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES. 

We are in favor of the proper observance of the 
Sabbath, but not of laws that restrict the right of 
the individual citizen to indulge in innocent amuse- 
ments and harmless recreation on that day. 

We are in favor of the licensing of saloons and 

their proper regulation and control, but not of prohi- 
bition. 

We believe in the subordination of the interests of 
the individual citizen to the interests of the com- 
munity as a whole, but not in the curtailment of the 
personal rights and liberties of one class or party 
of citizens to satisfy the demands of another class 
or party who may desire to waive such personal 
rights and liberties for themselves. 

Believing in the above principles, we declare our 
friendship and pledge our support to men and meas- 
ures that stand for these principles, and we declare 
our opposition to men and measures that favor 
sumptuary or restrictive legislation which encroaches 
upon or curtails the personal liberties of our people. 



The vote of Jimmy Durkin for governor of 
the state, upon the Democratic ticket, is in re- 
ality the greatest surprise of the late election. 
This ''unique candidate" came within one thou- 
sand three hundred votes of being elected. 
"The Patriarch/' as far as we saw of the press 
of the state, was the only paper that gave him 
a prominence, without being solicited or paid 
for the same. This very large vote of a "sa- 
loonkeeper" for governor, is ominous, It must 
make the "Anti-Saloon League" feel sick, as it 
is a reflection in a large measure of the public 
sentiment on the saloons. 

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Seattle, Aug. 24, 19G4. 
Edward Clay son, Sr., Editor Patriarch: 

Dear Sir — Accept my thanks for a packet of The 
Patriarch, received yesterday. Every page gives evi- 
dence that intellectual and moral issues are placed 
above material interests. With your views, as far 
as I have learned them, I heartily agree, with one re- 
serve, viz., the saloon question, on which your posi- 
tion is not clear to my mind. . . . 

Wishing success to your paper, which strikes me 
as on a higher plane than any local paper I have 
seen, I remain, yours respectfully, 

W. A. P. MARTIN, 
Ex-President Imperial University, Peking. 

The above letter from Dr. Martin, the most 

distinguished missionary that ever visited Se- 
attle, gives a wholesome rebuke to the hypo- 
crites who turn up their noses and exclaim: 
"Ho! The Patriarch is a 'whisky man's pa- 
per'." I sent Dr. Martin a whole package of 
Patriarchs, selected indiscriminately. He does 
not prostitute his intelligence, nor violate the 
highest standard of good morals by endorsing 
a paper of exemplary moral worth, just because 
it stands by the ' 'liquor dealers, ' ' as against 
hypocritical pretenders. The only reserve made 
by Dr. Martin in relation to "the saloon ques- 
tion " in his letter to me, is a very gentle one, 
as he says the position The Patriarch takes upon 
the saloon question is "not clear to his mind." 
This shows a liberal spirit which is open to con- 
viction.— The Patriarch, Sept. 16, 1905. 



HIGH COMPLIMENTS. 

That editorial- "Jap Morality" in the 23rd 
inst. Patriarch is not excelled by the English 
Quaker Jonathan Dymond (1803) in any of his 

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classic essays on "English Ethics and British 
Morals." Having said this, and truly spoken, 
nothing more remains. Good old Dr. Dymond, 
rich though he was, covered the entire field, 
leaving room only for his addenda, made, and 
so opportunely made by The Patriarch, con- 
cerning which latter a Kentuckian some time 
ago said: "People may damn this paper now, 
but ten years hence many of the ideas it now 
advocates will be current coin." 

S. PARRXSH, Attorney. 
Richmond, Ky., Sept. 28, 1905. 

—The Patriarch, Oct. 6th, 1905. 



Department of Justice— Office of United States 
Attorney for the Eastern District of Wash- 
ington. 

Spokane, September 19, 1908. 
Mr. Edward Clayson, Sr., 
"The Patriarch," 

1320 Arcade, Seattle, Wash. 
Dear Sir: I am in receipt of the copy of 
"The Patriarch" of the 12th instant, containing 
your editorial comments on the paper which I 
read at the meeting of the Washington State 
Bar Association at Seattle, and beg to thank 
you for the generous praise which you bestow 
upon my effort. I was greatly interested in 
your comments and particularly in those on the 
fact that I had not carried the subject, or rather 
its discussion, far enough. That I did not do 
so was not because I had not considered the 
precise suggestions which you make, but be- 
cause I felt that I had already departed suffi- 

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ciently from the conventional and usual form of 
addresses delivered at prior meetings. There 
is a surprising lack of effort on the part of the 
people at large to teach specifically concerning 
morals in. the broad sense of the term, and I 
sincerely hope (though there is no remarkable 
amount of encouragement for so doing) that 
the day is not far distant when it will seem of 
as great importance in institutions of learning, 
and those kindred, that the young be taught to 
do and live right as that they should be made 
proficient in the sciences and arts. Your vig- 
orous remarks lead me to believe that you like- 
wise hope for such conditions. 

Again thanking you for the kindly considera- 
tion which you have given my paper, I am, 

Very truly yours, 

A. G. AVERY. 
—The Patriarch, Sept, 16, 1908. 



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